DVD wont play via my new USB Stick

Richie-from-the-Boro

Mr_Oink wrote: »

Didn't they update Vista to 'Fat64' (exFAT) with a service pack that caused all sorts of carnage? I remember something in the distant past about it causing issues with USB sticks? Nothing solid, but it was mentioned in a few places.

NTFS is not ideal for Flash drives. The way it works effectively wears the drive out faster than FAT or Ext2/3/4

Yeh, this machine is x64, but even the [ if I remember correctly ] x86 O/S won't deal with 32bit format.
I assume ' billy boy ' decided to make try to sure only NTFS drives would be supported, of course if you plug any 32bit into Win7 / HDD / USB / whatever it just works.

It's the same as he decided to force everyone into ' live mail ' but every copy of Win7 still has a working Outlook Express hidden and usable.

leeegglestone

does this make a difference. when i plug my usb into my pc that works in the dvd. it shows up in My Computer at the top listed as one of the Hard Disks.

The problem Stick, comes up under Devices with Removable Storage?

I dloaded that Easeus and it will only allow me to choose one of the 3 hard disks on PC not the removable

also the working stick is listed as FAT and the new stick FAT32

Taffybiker

I found that FAT32Formatter was successful when even swissknife failed. I have formatted a 160GB HDD with it successfully.

enigma52

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Yeh, this machine is x64, but even the [ if I remember correctly ] x86 O/S won't deal with 32bit format.
I assume ' billy boy ' decided to make try to sure only NTFS drives would be supported, of course if you plug any 32bit into Win7 / HDD / USB / whatever it just works.

It's the same as he decided to force everyone into ' live mail ' but every copy of Win7 still has a working Outlook Express hidden and usable.[/QUOTE]

go on then, please tell where it is cos I can't find it.

aliEnRIK

Taffybiker wrote: »

I found that FAT32Formatter was successful when even swissknife failed. I have formatted a 160GB HDD with it successfully.

Its not that swissknife 'fails'. It just needs unplugging and plugging back in for it to work properly

Richie-from-the-Boro

leeegglestone wrote: »

does this make a difference. when i plug my usb into my pc that works in the dvd. it shows up in My Computer at the top listed as one of the Hard Disks.

The problem Stick, comes up under Devices with Removable Storage?

I dloaded that Easeus and it will only allow me to choose one of the 3 hard disks on PC not the removable

also the working stick is listed as FAT and the new stick FAT32

- I've no experience of the ' Easeus ' product, so I can't make a comment.
- FAT32 has wide support and a maximum filesize limit of 4GB so unless you're using large files just go with FAT32.
- What you call FAT is FAT16 the predecessor of FAT32
- I'm surprised that your pendrive is on FAT and not FAT32, FAT32 has greatly reduced cluster sizes.

Maybe most pen drives come on FAT16, it's not a question I've ever thought about. From your point of view if your working stick is listed as FAT then just format the new [ non-working ] stick the same, as FAT.

Let us know how you get on.

Richie-from-the-Boro

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Its not that swissknife 'fails'. It just needs unplugging and plugging back in for it to work properly

Aye aliEnRIK, that's exactly what I found, it's easy to see why people think it didn't work when Windows lies to you and tells you it hasn't. :beer:

leeegglestone

I did window format to ex fat, plugged in dvd and it doesn't like the format.

ok tried Fat32formatter and it says partition collapsed initialise drive and try again. and that wont work

Used the swissknife, did format.unplugged,plugged back in, added my pc file, put back in dvd, unsupported

Richie-from-the-Boro

enigma52 wrote: »

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Yeh, this machine is x64, but even the [ if I remember correctly ] x86 O/S won't deal with 32bit format.
I assume ' billy boy ' decided to make try to sure only NTFS drives would be supported, of course if you plug any 32bit into Win7 / HDD / USB / whatever it just works.

It's the same as he decided to force everyone into ' live mail ' but every copy of Win7 still has a working Outlook Express hidden and usable.[/QUOTE]

go on then, please tell where it is cos I can't find it.

Sorry enigma52, I'm not going to spend the next 6 months correcting broken computers where people trying to avoid ' windows live ' goose their machines as a result of my advice.

It's one of those many ' loose lips - sink ships ' moments !

GooGle it if you must, but I'm outa here !

leeegglestone

i cant format is a basic fat. when i right click drive-format i can do fat32, ntfs and ex fat