To: Perdogg
I have a WD Ultra 2tb USB 3.0 mini-drive that I originally got when I had 8.1.
My approach to all of these things is to immediately format them to get rid of any bloat-ware or other junk taking up space.
I have recently done the upgrade to Win 10 and my drive reads perfectly. It is just another USB drive. I just now copied several MB of files to it to make sure and then deleted them. All good.
Copy the data off, format NTFS with win 10, replace the data and live happily ever after (with more space on your drive).
4 posted on
08/23/2015 7:27:26 PM PDT by
GOPBiker
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To: GOPBiker; markomalley
I do not understand this stuff.
6 posted on
08/23/2015 7:31:56 PM PDT by
Perdogg
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To: GOPBiker; Perdogg
Copy the data off, format NTFS with win 10, replace the data and live happily ever after (with more space on your drive).
I do not understand this stuff.
NO, don't do this. NTFS is a specifically Windows format, Mac computers can generally read it, but not write to it. Newer ones support both. Though, this may not be a concern to you.
So, exFat is the best choice, as you aren't limited on file sizes like FAT32, but all PCs/Macs are able to read and write to it.
Copy all the data from it into a folder on your desktop (create one called 'stuff' or whatever).
Right-click on the USB drive, and select "Format.."
Within the options under "File system", select "exFat". If you want to name the drive, you can do so under "Volume label".
Click Start.
Copy 'stuff' folder back onto drive!
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