Comment 42 for bug 252900

For those just joining us, here is a workaround I posted a while back:

"One possible solution would be to convert the vfat volume to ntfs. This can be done if the volume in question is NOT a system or otherwise un-dismountable volume.
The command to do this, under windows xp, is:

convert x: /FS:NTFS /NoSecurity

where x is the drive letter of the volume."

One important addition is that the partition/volume should be as defragmented as possible, or the performance of the new filesystem will be terrible. A free utility that seems to work better than the internal defragmenter is Defraggler from Piriform (http://www.defraggler.com/). If there is too much data on that volume and defragmenting would be too slow, check under the action menu for an advanced option to just defragment the free space (even allowing fragmentation).