Format USB drive

I have a Fat32 disk I want to place into a USB enclosure and
clone my XP disk. Can I format the enclosed disk to ntfs using disk
management? I've researched a little but I want to be very sure,
hence, I'm asking here. TIA.
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Ed Mc wrote:

> I have a Fat32 disk I want to place into a USB enclosure and
> clone my XP disk. Can I format the enclosed disk to ntfs using disk
> management? I've researched a little but I want to be very sure,
> hence, I'm asking here. TIA.

Yes, but you don't need to if you're going to clone the drive. Whatever file
system the clone master uses is what you'll get on the cloned drive after
the process is complete. I use Acronis True Image for this sort of work and
it has no problem dealing with drives in USB enclosures.

Malke
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