How to stop "you need to format the disk in drive" message?

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  1. dictum
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    I am aware of the above which is why not going to FAT32 or EXFAT.
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  3. Berton
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    I reread it and see I failed to mention that exFAT does not have the same limitation as FAT32. Also, the last 2 External USB drives at 4TB I got came with the packaging showing they were for use with PC or Macintosh and formatted as exFAT.
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  4. dictum
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    What I don't understand is why the message would stop once the filesystem got converted from NTFS to ExFAT.

    Also I came to realize I don't want Windows to control that filesystem, it's kind of a good thing it doesn't. No chance to accidentally overwrite it.

    I tried it both ways: Format a disk and then encrypt it. Or encrypt it without formatting it. The drive in question follows the latter. And works just as well.
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  6. Berton
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    dictum said:
    Also I came to realize I don't want Windows to control that filesystem, it's kind of a good thing it doesn't.
    Kinda hard to do that since Microsoft [Windows] owns it.
    My first computer with NTFS was Windows NT 3.51 back in about '96.
    NTFS - Wikipedia
    New Technology File System ( NTFS) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. [2] [1] Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the default file system of the Windows NT family. [11] It superseded File Allocation Table (FAT) as the preferred filesystem on Windows and is supported in Linux and BSD
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