Can't enable Windows file compression on removable drive?

I have a USB drive formatted with NTFS. I would like to use "compress contents to save disk space" option, although it is greyed out.

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It works fine on the C: drive. Any suggestions?


Solution 1:

Problem was the ntfs allocation unit size on the drive was set higher then 4k. Reformatted with default allocation size allowed me to use compression.