Quote Originally Posted by jockey0109

Now there are two things:

1. It would be a BAD IDEA to format a USB drive as NTFS file system specially when u have some precious data as both undeleted and deleted data (by mistake) may create a lot of problem

2. And the second issue is: IS WINDOWS really so slow or the NTFS MFT manipulation is so complex that it would take more than 25 seconds to just modify the MFT of a NTFS formatted drive with a moderate size and moderate number of files.

OK in response to #1 The data on this flash drive is not precious, it's mostly technical tools that I have copies of.

Secondly as I said before. Once the drive has been formatted NTFS you can then set it back to "Optimize for quick removal" and as such data corruption is much less likely.