In Windows Xp for formatting USB Drive only FAT or FAT32 Option is there if you wish to enable and use NTFS 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.
Additional Info:
FAT OVERVIEW
FAT is by far the most simplistic of the file systems supported by Windows NT. The FAT file system is characterized by the file allocation table (FAT), which is really a table that resides at the very "top" of the volume. To protect the volume, two copies of the FAT are kept in case one becomes damaged. In addition, the FAT tables and the root directory must be stored in a fixed location so that the system's boot files can be correctly located.
A disk formatted with FAT is allocated in clusters, whose size are determined by the size of the volume. When a file is created, an entry is created in the directory and the first cluster number containing data is established. This entry in the FAT table either indicates that this is the last cluster of the file, or points to the next cluster.
Updating the FAT table is very important as well as time consuming. If the FAT table is not regularly updated, it can lead to data loss. It is time consuming because the disk read heads must be repositioned to the drive's logical track zero each time the FAT table is updated.
There is no organization to the FAT directory structure, and files are given the first open location on the drive. In addition, FAT supports only read-only, hidden, system, and archive file attributes.
NTFS OVERVIEW
From a user's point of view, NTFS continues to organize files into directories, which, like HPFS, are sorted. However, unlike FAT or HPFS, there are no "special" objects on the disk and there is no dependence on the underlying hardware, such as 512 byte sectors. In addition, there are no special locations on the disk, such as FAT tables or HPFS Super Blocks.
The goals of NTFS are to provide:
• Reliability, which is especially desirable for high end systems and file servers
• A platform for added functionality
• Support POSIX requirements
• Removal of the limitations of the FAT and HPFS file systems Follow @aleemxp
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