[Lvlug] reformat from the standard FAT 32 to NTFS for USB, HDD

[Glen Hartzell]

gparted will do this, it should work under KDE without any problem. Just make sure you are formatting the right drive. You need to make sure you're looking at that USB drive so as not to format a fixed disk. The other way to be absolutely sure would be to unplug your fixed disks and boot your system with gparted live CD. That way, the only drive available to the partitioner would be the USB one.

...Glen

--- On Sun, 8/2/09, John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Lvlug] reformat from the standard FAT 32 to NTFS for USB, HDD
> To: lvlug at lvlug.org
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 4:16 AM
> Does anyone have any experience with
> the formatting process on those rather large USB, HDDs? A
> friend supplied the code needed to reformat from the
> standard FAT 32 to NTFS, which I believe to be even more
> useful for modern purposes.
> 
> Is this advisable, that is to change the standard format on
> those USB, HDDs, to ntfs? I use Linux Mint exclusively for
> generating the files that would go on the USB HDDs, but I
> would like those windows people that I know to be able to
> plug my USB, HDD into their XP systems if it should be
> required. In particular, I am interested in keeping the
> auto-run/mount feature that comes on these USB, HDDs, so the
> mount and Konqueror display windows still come up
> automatically.
> 
> John
> -
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