INCREASE CAPACITY OF YOUR PEN DRIVE

INCREASE CAPACITY OF YOUR  PEN DRIVE

INCREASE CAPACITY OF YOUR FLASH DIRVE BY CHANGING ITS FORMAT TO NTFS

There are many kinds of File Systems such as FAT, FAT 32 and NTFS but one of the main advantage of the NTFS file system that it has a compression option. Which means if you copy a File with the Size of 50MB in a Drive with Compression enabled NTFS File System it may take only 30MB.


The file system of Pen Drives are usually FAT and if you don’t Have the NTFS option on your Pen Drive’s provided software then do the following:
1. Go to Start ->Run -> cmd and press enter.
2. Type convert X: /FS:NTFS ( Where X is your Pen Drive Letter)





The File System is now converted to NTFS. Now its time to enable compression:


1. Go to My Computer and Right Click on your Pen Drive Icon and select Properties.
2. Select Compress Drive to Save Disk Space and then OK.





3. Then Select Apply To Sub Folders and Files and select ok ( if Asked)





All Done, the free space of the pen drive will increase and if you copy anything in the drive it will take less space.

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try another tricks bellow

You can do a lot of things with your PEN DRIVE or FLASH USB DRIVES. You can make this little storage into CUSTOM PEN DRIVES by giving it a name, password etc. However, the main thing you want from it to store your Data, right? What happens if you’ve only 4 GB USB PEN DRIVES and a file you want to store here is 4.7 GB? you can’t put it in there, right? Well, Solve to this problem by following these tips.

Generally Pen Drive is preformatted with FAT, FAT 32 File system, where there’s no options to COMPRESS FILES to SAVE DISK SPACE. But if you FORMAT PEN DRIVE into NTFS system, you can compress file. By following these steps you can increase your pendrive space.

1.Click to Start Button & go to Run.
2. Write “cmd” in Run option & open Commend.
Write “convert X:/FS:NTFS” & press Enter. ( Here X means the Pen Drive’s Drive Name)
4. Then go to My Computer & Click the right button on Pen Drive & open Properties.
5. From here click the right mark on “Compress Drive to Save Disk Space” & press OK.
6. Now click OK on “Apply to Sub Folder and Files” option (If Come).

Now if you save any file or folder to your Pen Drive it didn’t get more Space.