How to Increase the Capacity of Your Pendrive

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There are many kinds of file system such as FAT, FAT 32 and NTFS, but one of the main advantages of the NTFS file system that it has a compression option. If you copy a file with the size of 50MB in a drive with a compression-enabled NTFS file system, it may take only 30MB. The file system of Pen Drives is usually FAT. If you don't have the NTFS option on your Pen Drive's provided software, then do the following:

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    /FS:NTFS ( Where X is your Pen Drive Letter)
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    Right click on your Pen Drive icon and select "Properties".
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