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When adding a USB portable drive, they often come ready formatted as FAT32 drives. After you plug it into your machine it will assign itself a drive letter. In the exaple below the drive is drive D
If you plan on storing files larger than 4Gb, you will need to use the NTFS filesystem, as many video files, virtual PC images etc can be larger than 4Gb.
The can be easily changed to NTFS by opening a command line by:
Go to Start -> Run and enter CMD
When the command line window opens type the following:
C: <press enter>
convert D: /fs:ntfs <press enter>
After a short while you will need to enter the volume name of the drive, this can easily be found by right clicking on the drive in your My Computer window.
Note: In the example above I assume that the drive is D, however you may need to replace it with the required drive letter.
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21 December 2008 IB
Windows XP
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