How To Format USB Drive With NTFS File System

How To Format USB Drive with NTFS File SystemIn Windows Xp for formatting USB Drive only FAT or FAT32 Option is there if you wish to enable and useNTFS Format Option then continue reading this article.
What are the Advantages Of NTFS?
The advantage of NTFS file system is more security options and fast. Normally USB drive capacity is very small enough that NTFS is not recommended. But, nowadays USB drives are coming with larger capacity also. So we can format USB drive with NTFS to have more security options.

NTFS enabled USB Drives are write-able only on one PC and becomes read only on all other PCs. Hence, we can read and write on our own PC and transfer files to elsewhere without any fear of virus.

In Windows XP, only FAT and FAT32 file systems are available in format options, use the below steps to format in NTFS File System.

• Insert USB drive in your PC.
• Go to Device Manager (Start–>Run–>devmgmt.msc)
• Select Disk Drives and expand.
• Right Click on USB drive and select Properties.
• Go to policies tab and select Optimize for performance and press OK.
• Now Right click on USB Drive and select Format Option.

Now you can have NTFS option there.