USB Flash drive

[Bill Ridgeway]

My USB flash drive is formatted as FAT32. Is it possible to re-format it as
NTFS and gain from the increased speed of NTFS over FAT32?

Is it possible to install and update Norton Internet Security on a USB flash
drive? My objective is to use it to diagnose threats avoiding needing to
temporarily transfer a hard disk to my computer. I am primarily concerned
here with practicalities.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

 

[Sharon F]

My USB flash drive is formatted as FAT32. Is it possible to re-format it as
NTFS and gain from the increased speed of NTFS over FAT32?

Is it possible to install and update Norton Internet Security on a USB flash
drive? My objective is to use it to diagnose threats avoiding needing to
temporarily transfer a hard disk to my computer. I am primarily concerned
here with practicalities.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

You can reformat to NTFS but don't expect there to be much difference in
speed for a smaller drive.

As far as installing NIS and running it from the flash drive - dunno. Some
products of this type will install and run in this manner but some won't.
The place to find out would be Norton tech support (online documents or
product manual).

You may want to check out BartsPE. It is a tool that can boot the system
and provides an interface to diagnose and repair. Various plugins to choose
from that include antivirus and anti-spyware.

 

[FeMaster]

My USB flash drive is formatted as FAT32. Is it possible to re-format it
as NTFS and gain from the increased speed of NTFS over FAT32?

Is it possible to install and update Norton Internet Security on a USB
flash drive? My objective is to use it to diagnose threats avoiding
needing to temporarily transfer a hard disk to my computer. I am
primarily concerned here with practicalities.

If you are looking to get antivirus on a stick (flash drive), you have two
options that come to mind, but there may be more:

1) Get a U3 enabled flash drive. Avast antivirus makes a U3 edition, and is
relatively inexpensive.
2) Install "Portable Apps" onto any old flash drive you have. This is an
open-source system, similar to U3. The antivirus software with Portable
Apps would be ClamWin, another open-source piece of software.

I run both on separate pen drives. Either serves it's purpose well. Major
advantage goes to Portable Apps, as all the software for it is FREE, where
as, MOST of the software for U3 is extra $$.