With a tiny bit of practice, you’ll have it up in just a few seconds) then right-click on the device:Ĭhoose “Format…” and you’ll see all your options, including what the system thinks is the default size of the drive: To do that, go into File Explorer (tip: if you can’t ever find it in Windows 8, simply use the Search charm to search for “File” and press Return. Now, let’s try to format the drive using the standard Microsoft Windows 8 toolset. In fact, I always check “Better performance” on Policies because I’d rather have it be slow to eject and fast to read/write than otherwise. The solution if you encounter that problem is to go to the Policies window, as shown above, and click “Better performance”. On some USB flash drives, you’ll find that the default setting is “quick removal”, but when you go to format it, NTFS simply isn’t an option. Now in Device Manager locate your flash drive, and right-click on it:Ĭhoose “Properties” to see how it’s configured: Plug in your thumb drive, then go to your Charms bar and type in “device manager”:Īs usual, once you see the program you want highlighted with the box, just press Enter or Return and it’s launched. I’ll explain as I go, but let’s start with the official Microsoft way of reformatting a USB flash drive in Win8 since hopefully that’ll work fine for most everyone. Worst is that when I hit that weird 200MB flash drive glitch the easiest solution I found was to download and use a third-party flash drive formatting program from my old corporate alma mater, Hewlett-Packard. A file that size is just too darn big and the NT File System (NTFS) becomes a requirement.įor all of Windows 8’s refinements and Metro UI changes, however, working with this sort of thing is still crude and visibly unchanged since, what, Windows 2000? You’ll see what I mean. Until the 3.6GB ISO disk image that’s part of the Windows 8.1 preview release. Apparently, however, I wasn’t hitting any of the file size limitations on the FAT32 format so it worked just fine. We’re on the same path, my friend, because I too hit this problem for exactly the same reason: I’ve been using a Kingston 32GB USB Flash Drive without incident for a long time, even using it with Windows 8 as a simple “old school” file transfer tool.
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