Formatting a Flash Drive

[Drifter]

Got a brand new 8GB Flash Drive. Want to format it NTFS, but when I right click, format, I ony get FAT32 or
ex-FAT as options?

What am I screwing up?

 

[Cameronkk]

Format Utility

 

[Drifter]

Thx, but not picking up the flash.

 

[Cameronkk]

Thx, but not picking up the flash.

Where did you get it and what make is it?

Another one to try

 

[saor]

a.) Tell us what brand it is & what o/s you're using, or
b.) It's faulty

 

[Drifter]

Using XP, one of those company barnded drives, cant see what brand it is, properties just list it as Generic drive

 

[Fudzy]

Use the tool diskpart, just be careful you choose the flash drive and not one of your main drives.

 

[Drifter]

Where did you get it and what make is it?

Another one to try

This one worked, thanks. Properties in XP shows file system is NTFS, but only give FAT32 or ex-FAT in format option. Weird.

 

[Hemps]

SD Card formatter - does flash drives as well, it'll fix anything.

 

[Batista]

open MSDOS

change to directory of disk using 'cd' , so if disk is named z type cd z:
format z: /fs:NTFS

 

[Rickster]

1. Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port.
2. Click Start, type devmgmt.msc in the Search textbox and press Enter.
3. Find Disk Drives and expand it.
4. Find the USB flash drive you want to format, and double-click it. It opens the Properties dialog box.
5. Click Policies tab.
6. By default, the Optimize for quick removal option selected, switch it to Optimize for performance and then pressOK.
7. Now open Computer. Right click on the USB Flash Drive and select Format. The Format dialog box now appears.
8. Select NTFS in the File System field.
9. Press Start and wait while the process will be completed.
10. Now your USB Flash Drive is formatted with NTFS format.

-Microsoft

 

[Drifter]

Thanks Rickster!!!

 

[Batista]

Thanks Rickster!!!

3 steps vs 10 steps lol

 

[bdt]

I use this sequence to format flash drives as FAT32 for my *NIX, etcetera boot devices. To do NTFS, you need only change the fs=fat32 to fs=ntfs. Oh, and you can safely ignore the active command.

 

[Rickster]

Thanks Rickster!!!

Thank Microsoft and google...