Today, you will not surprise anyone with flash cards of large volumes; every season you can observe a rapid decline in prices for goods lying on store shelves. There is an explanation for this - newer solutions are constantly being created and the technique that was released a month ago is losing its position, respectively, the price of such a product is falling. After purchasing a flash-card, it must be formatted in order to record large files.
Necessary
Computer, flash-media with a volume of more than 4 Gb
Instructions
Step 1
It just so happens that progress in technology has not yet reached its climax and, probably, will never do it. Despite all the achievements of modern media companies, there is still no agreement on automatic formatting of flash devices into the NTFS file system. By default, all media are formatted in FAT 32. This file system is not universal - files over 2 Gb are hard to read, and over 4 Gb cannot be written to the media.
Step 2
The only way out of this situation is formatting to NTFS. In addition to the fact that it reads large files, there are other advantages: when formatting (changing the file system) of the medium in NTFS, all the data that was previously on the flash drive can be restored. How can this be achieved? This can be done using special programs that are included in the Windows operating system.
Step 3
Before formatting, it is advisable to save all important files that are on it, formatting may fail and data will be lost. Start Windows Command Prompt. Click the "Start" menu, select "Run", in the window that opens, enter the cmd command and click the "OK" button. A command prompt window will appear in front of you.
Step 4
Enter the following value into the program window: convert z: / fs: ntfs / nosecurity / x, then press the Enter key. Instead of z, write the letter of the flash drive (you can spy on this letter through "My Computer"). The guarantee of formatting the media without errors can be the availability of free space on the USB flash drive.
Step 5
If everything went well and no error messages appeared on the screen, the formatting is complete successfully, otherwise you should get rid of the errors that appeared during the formatting. By default, the CHKDSK program should start, which will start checking your media and, as a result, will display a message about the use of the flash drive by another application. Then a request will follow to restart the computer in order to check the media without loads of other programs. As a result, this program will check not only your media, but the entire computer, which will take much longer.
Step 6
Therefore, refuse to restart your computer and open "My Computer", right-click on the image of the flash drive, then select "Properties" from the context menu. In the window that opens, open the "Service" tab and click the "Check" button. In this window, check both boxes and wait for the end of the check.
Step 7
After the flash media has been verified and its errors have been corrected, run a command prompt and repeat the formatting procedure.
