Format USB Thumb drive with NTFS filesystem

Submitted by khairie on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 09:07
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In Windows, we all know that we can't format our thumb drive to NTFS by default. There are no options for NTFS when we're trying to format our thumb drive. But that doesn't mean that we can't have NTFS filesystem on our thumb drive. All we have to do is use the Convert utility to change the thumb drive's filesystem to NTFS. Here's how:

1) Open your Command Prompt
2) Assuming the drive for your thumb drive is "X", type the following line in command prompt:-

C:\Users\Yourname> CONVERT X: /fs:ntfs

That's all to it. You don't even have to format your thumb drive to have an NTFS filesystem on it. Your data will still remains even after converting to NTFS. Note that this is a one way process, you will NOT be able to convert back to FAT32 once you have convert your thumb drive to NTFS. If you want to go back to FAT32, you will have to format your thumb drive (make sure you back up all your data first).

Have fun!

Note: I will NOT be responsible if something goes wrong with your thumb drive, or your Windows for that matter. This post is for reference only.

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