Enable NTFS on your Flash Drive

If you have ever wanted to copy a large file onto your flash drive (nowadays, most flash drives are over 4GB), you will need to enable the file system to be NTFS, if you plan to use this flash drive on Windows Computers. By default when you format the flash drive, you will only see the option as FAT32 and exFAT.

To enable the NTFS option in format, you will have to change a property of the Flash drive. Follow the steps below -

1. Go to your device manager, in Windows XP, right click on My Computer and choose Manage.
2. Click on device manager -> Choose Disk Drives -> Right click on the drive that corresponds to your flash drive and choose properties.
3. Go to the Policies Tab, and choose the option "Optimize for Performance", by default it will be "Optimize for quick removal".
4. Click OK and close out the Computer management window.
5. Now right click on your Flash drive letter in My Computer and choose format, now under the File System, you will see the NTFS option. Choose NTFS and format, this will convert your flash drive to NTFS and you're good to go.