Hi, Raelene.
256 MEGAbytes? Not long ago, that was a humongous drive, but nowadays it's
tiny! Is this one of those new "disks" that is really just a stick of
non-volatile RAM with a USB connector? They are called by various names,
such as USB drive, thumb drive, pen drive, keychain drive...and others.
NTFS is better than FAT32 in almost every way, but not for drives smaller
than about 20 GB because of the increased overhead that NTFS requires.
Also, Microsoft says, "NTFS is disabled for some removable media because
NTFS does not flush data to the disk immediately, and removing
NTFS-formatted media without using the Safe Removal application can result
in data loss." For details, including a paragraph with the heading, "To
enable NTFS on removable media", see the online version of the Windows XP
Professional Resource Kit:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/
Drill down to Part II Desktop Management/Chapter 13 File Systems/File
Systems Overview/When to Use FAT.
Or click here, which should take to directly to that page:
When to Use FAT
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_pcxb.asp
RC
