[LMB] AKICOTL: Technical question OT:

[Mark Allums]

I just bought a large capacity USB "thumb" drive, 8 GB.  The problem is, 
it is formatted as FAT32, and has a hard limit on file size of 4 GB.  I 
want to put 5 GB files on it, and the best way is to reformat it to 
NTFS.  Unfortunately, the firmware of the drive tells Windows XP that it 
is a removable media, and Windows is stubborn and won't allow me to 
format it as anything other than FAT32.

How do I convince Windows that it is okay to format as NTFS?

Any help would be appreciated.  You may reply off-list if you have a 
solution.

Thanks! guys!

--Mark Allums