File Format for USB Flash pens

[MorseLady]

I have just bought a ByteStor 512MB USB Flash device and am very pleased with it, auto set up first time in XP and have dropped some backup essential settings etc on it! Bit like taking my life everywhere with me now. I am wearing it round my neck, real cool these devices

I notice that it is formatted in FAT but what I cannot find out from the instructions is whether USB Flash drives can be reformatted in NTFS? I do not want to try without checking because I remember trying to reformat one of my xD camera cards to FAT32 in my card reader and having to reverse the process to get the card to be recognised by my camera as these cards also appear to use FAT as default.

The instructions for the USB Flash device say the device is partitioned with 1.44MB floppy and the rest is the main drive but I cannot see these partitions in Disk Management just one primary removable drive.