While formatting that partition or hard disk, select the NTFS file system from the respective drop-down and start formatting. Read next: PC crashes during Windows installation.

NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1.

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