[mcintire21]

I received a 16GB flash drive as a gift, it's not branded. I want reformat to NFTS. When I plug it in is shows up but doesn't give me the option to format to nfts. I'm running windows xp and I did go to the policies tab and changed it to optimize for performance. I tried reformatting under disk management and the cmd prompt. Any suggestions.

Thanks

 

[Tyree]

What options do you get if you right clik on the Drive in My Computer or Disc management?

 

[mcintire21]

Fat32 only.

 

[koala]

Enabling 'Optimize For Performance' in the Policies tab should give you a new option in the File System dropdown menu, allowing you to format using NTFS instead of FAT/FAT32. Are you logged in with admin rights? Can you format the flash drive on another computer?

You could try using the command prompt. Start > Run > cmd, type convert f: /fs:ntfs (where f: is the flash drive letter)

 

[mcintire21]

Are there flash drives out there that cant be formatted to ntfs?

 

[DrearierSpider]

i formatted my pny 16 GB to ntfs with the command prompt. it was on vista though

 

[mcintire21]

i formatted my pny 16 GB to ntfs with the command prompt. it was on vista though

I tried still wouldn't let me.