{"id":218748,"date":"2017-07-07T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T09:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=218748"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T09:28:28","slug":"onedrive-no-longer-works-on-non-ntfs-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/218748-onedrive-no-longer-works-on-non-ntfs-drives.html","title":{"rendered":"OneDrive no longer works on non-NTFS drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OneDrive no longer works with hard drives not formatted to the\u00a0NTFS file system, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/07\/onedrive-has-stopped-working-on-non-ntfs-drives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OneDrive users have found that the cloud storage system shows an error message for drives using\u00a0FAT32, exFAT, and\u00a0ReFS file systems.<\/p>\n<p>Files must now be stored on an NTFS volume, stated the report. It should be noted that NTFS is the default file system for modern Windows operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said OneDrive was always meant to warn users using\u00a0non-NTFS file systems, and that a &#8220;bug&#8221; allowed drives with other file systems to work with the service.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the upcoming Windows 10\u00a0Fall Creators Update, which features a\u00a0revamp of OneDrive&#8217;s functionality, may be the reason for the apparent policy change.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/218592-hetzner-upgrades-its-database-system-to-mariadb-10-0.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hetzner upgrades its database system to MariaDB 10.0<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OneDrive no longer works with hard drives not formatted to the\u00a0NTFS file system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[123,23371],"class_list":["post-218748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-microsoft","tag-onedrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218750,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218748\/revisions\/218750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}