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Solve : 4.36 GB movied does not fit on 7.99 GB USB drive? |
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Answer» Yes, I formatted the USB flash drive with Windows XP. 4GB file limit with FAT32. I took a 8GB thumb drive I bought cheap on black friday staples promo but haven't used yet out of package and plugged it into my older Windows XP Pro SP3 box and it only allows FAT32 formatting and doesn't offer NTFS just as you experienced. I guess I haven't noticed this issue yet because I don't have any files larger than 4GB to save to the thumb drive. Just used my Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit computer to format my thumb drive to NTFS. This drive works no problems with XP Pro SP3. *I guess I am going to have to go through my small pile of thumb drives and convert all but the Bootable Linux drives to NTFS if they aren't NTFS already to avoid this problem at some point in the future. Thanks to Carbon Dudeoxide, He solution is the best. Hp has a program for XP. Yes, XP can read NTFS from a flash drive. Just doesn't let you create it. If you have a video file that was ripped from a DVD, it can be over 4 GB unless you use compression. So once in awhile I do find some large video files. I put such on my 8 GB thumb drive to share with others in my household. That HP link is the way to go for anyone else that wants to do it from the XP machine. Problem solved! There's a theory that flash drives formatted NTFS last less long because the file format does 3 times as many read/writes...just so you know. I don't put much credence into it however. Quote There's a theory that flash drives formatted NTFS last less long because the file format does 3 times as many read/writes...just so you know. hmm... never heard of this, especially the 3x more R/W. Just out of curiosity I am going to try a transfer of a file between FAT32 and NTFS to see if NTFS lags 3x in relation to FAT32. It was my assumption that NTFS was mainly for security/ownership of data and larger file/partition support. I have a 1GB patch file for a game that comes to mind as a good test. Will be interesting to stop watch it and see what DIFFERENCE there is if any noticable difference. I expected the transfer to be almost equal. In another 6 hrs when I get off of work, I will give this a test and report back with my findings.NTFS is a journalled FS so it will have more writes. Though I doubt it makes a difference in the grand scheme. By the time it would matter, you've probably already replaced it anyway. I had a 256MB Flash Drive last around 7 years from heavy everyday use (as in, completely rewrite everything stored on it). On the other hand, NTFS does have methods that can actually make it take fewer reads and writes to read/store data, so I imagine it would even out anyway. As for speed, NTFS is almost always faster, but it depends on the operation. With FAT/FAT32, if a program tries to find a file that doesn't exist, the FS DRIVER has to look through all the file entries in that directory to confirm it, whereas NTFS uses a Binary Tree structure that makes that search far quicker. This can be prevalent if you often search for files in directories with a lot of files. NTFS is faster if file data is fragmented, or if the files are small. It's about equal for large files, and of course files >4GB have no comparator for FAT32 which cannot have files that large.For reference: Quote exFAThttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFATAbout 4 years ago, I bought a replacement DVD player with a USB port and I bought an 8GB flash drive (not cheap at that time) so I could transfer material from the PC to watch on the TV. Immediately I started saving money because I wasn't burning disks. I formatted the flash drive with NTFS. That drive has been in daily use ever since and is showing no sign of failure. If it does, 8 GB is pretty much entry level size nowadays. That's the moral of this tale. (By the time they wear out you won't care.) Anyhow, now I have a home network, a NAS with DLNA and a TV likewise so goodbye PHYSICAL media. (Another moral) |
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