• One-Drive now limited to NTFS formatted drives

    Posted on July 6, 2017 at 18:29 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    OneDrive has stopped working on non-NTFS drives

    By Peter Bright | July 6, 2017

    FAT disks are no longer supported—more surprisingly, nor is the new ReFS file system.

    OneDrive users around the world have been upset to discover that with its latest update, Microsoft’s cloud file syncing and storage system no longer works with anything other than disks formatted with the NTFS file system. Both older file systems, such as FAT32 and exFAT, and newer ones, such as ReFS, will now provoke an error message when OneDrive starts up.

    Read the full article on ArsTechnica

    Mary Jo Foley has more information at All About Microsoft on ZDNet

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