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USB flash drives use FAT file system. And for a good reason – because NTFS has much more built-in features, it tends to be slower on smaller volumes.  But now that there are pretty large USB sticks out there, you might want to copy large files, like 4-5GB, to them. And for that you will need NTFS.

To enable NTFS on your USB stick you will need to format it to NTFS file system. Here’s how:

1. Right click My Computer and select Manage
2. Open the Device Manager and find your USB drive under Disk Drives
3. Right click the drive and go to Properties
4. Go to the Policies tab and select Optimize for performance and click OK
5. After that open My Computer and select Format on the flash drive
6. 
7. Choose NTFS and click start.

Now your USB stick is using NTFS file system.