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Thread ID: 119075 2011-07-03 22:38:00 Which is best for a thumb/pen drive - NTFS or FAT 32? tuiruru (12277) Press F1
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1214469 2011-07-04 04:48:00 Nup exfat didnt boot. Took forever to format it (8 GB). I was going to try the HP tool, but it doesn't support formatting in exfat. Speedy Gonzales (78)
1214470 2011-07-04 06:02:00 I have a Philips DVD player with a USB socket. I use it to play movies saved on my PC using a Thumb drive. The DVD player does not accept NTFS but it will play FAT32. Bryan (147)
1214471 2011-07-04 06:18:00 Most players (I've got a bluray player with USB) only recognise FAT32. I was going to test a file I had converted to DIVX, but remembered it was over 4 GB. So, tried it on the Xbox. It worked. I didnt know an Xbox could play them (till now) Speedy Gonzales (78)
1214472 2011-07-04 08:43:00 I did some tests on my Sony Bravia EX700:
- the drive must be FAT32
- doesn't matter whether it's a USB stick or a USB HDD (I had the FAT32 partition at the start)
- the partition must not be more than 32 GB (ie not exFAT)
BBCmicro (15761)
1214473 2011-07-04 10:13:00 My 4 Gig flash drive is formatted NTFS as I don't want to boot from it. I have a selection of bootable CDs and DVD's for that sort of thing.

There again I may as well format as FAT 32 as none of the files would exceed 4 Gig anyway. :)
Snorkbox (15764)
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