http://blogs.technet.com/vytas/archive/tags/Vista/default.aspxTags: Vistaen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/vytas/archive/2008/02/21/things-i-didn-t-know-about-vista-new-file-system-introduced-with-sp1.aspxFri, 22 Feb 2008 01:04:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2920076vytas0http://blogs.technet.com/vytas/comments/2920076.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/vytas/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2920076<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>It’s always been a personal pet peeve that large USB drives come shipped from the factory formatted with FAT.&nbsp; I have to reformat my MP3 player semi-regularly because it is a 30 GB Fat (something) partition.</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face=Calibri size=3>&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>The first thing I do with a new USB flash drive is to try to format it with NTFS.&nbsp; Today, I noticed that there was a new file system choice: exFAT. In short, it is designed for mobile devices and USB flash drives, &nbsp;where using NTFS may not be possible.&nbsp; &nbsp;exFAT supports&nbsp;partitions beyond 32GB.</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Calibri size=3>&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>More info:</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914353.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914353.aspx"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914353.aspx</FONT></A></P><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2920076" width="1" height="1">TechnicalVista