Can't format USB stick to NTFS

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Getting fed-up with this now!

Bought a generic 16GB USB stick for transferring big (8-12GB) files about, and so need to use NTFS.

In win 7, and in XP, i cant format to NTFS. All of my other hard drives are, but this one cannot.

I read that i need to alter it in device manager to "optimise for performance" to "unlock" NTFS in the formatting options - and its setup to do this now, but it still errors when trying to format to NTFS.

I can format to FAT32 easily, but errors everytime for NTFS. Fed up, so please help.

EDIT: Tried with another flash drive i have knocking about (cheapy 1GB one) and that works fine, so i guess its the drive?)
 
I formatted loads of USB drives as NTFS in Windows 7 and never had an issue. You either have a dodgy USB drive or it is just crap! :p

Give GParted a go as mentioned above. :)
 
well, trying gparted but thats proving trickier (via USB) as all three methods do not let me boot (i know what i'm doing to :p ).

tbh, i cba, i have never had this issue before, all my other ones work fine, i'm either gonna use it as a FTAT32 or get a refund.

buy cheap, buy twice...
 
yeah, should have said i already tried that. Drive disconnects (accroding to a popup from CMD)- thanks for the suggestion tho :)

its just crap, blatantly.
 
Have you tried using Diskpart?

Open Command Prompt with admin rights and type the following

DISKPART

LIST DISK (make a note of the number your flash drive is >DO NOT GET THIS WRONG<)

SELECT DISK (enter whatever number your flash drive is)

CLEAN ALL (clean and zero write)

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

ASSIGN

EXIT
 
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