Windows XP formatted USB sticks not with the format NTFS and FAT32 only up to 32 gigabytes size. With free HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool uses one of these formats, activates the file system of NTFS compression and makes the mobile media bootable.
The HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool is similar to the format software from Windows. After giving drive, file system and volume label, a mouse click starts the formatting. In contrast to previous versions of Windows Vista, the software disk formatted with the NTFS file system and activated on request, the compression of the storage medium.
Great use USB sticks as a hard drive
Formatted to more than 32 gigabyte USB flash drives with FAT32, the program uses the full size of the disk. In addition, the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool copies the boot files a boot diskette or boot CD to disk, making the USB stick bootable.
Conclusion
The HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to format USB sticks as you want and makes the pockets memory on request bootable. The freeware is therefore the ideal replacement of the Windows formatting software.
Benefits
easy operation
enabled NTFS compression
create bootable USB sticks
Disadvantages
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Block size of the file system can not be set