[James_A]

Whilst agreeing with the posts by CharlotteTheHarlot and by jaclaz, the goal-posts on this subject just moved with the release of exFAT for Windows XP.

See the KB article for details and the download link.

That would mean re-formatting the drive first, of course...

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[Tarun]

I always do a convert /fs:ntfs on my flash drives. Better overall in the long run.

[jaclaz]

James_A, on Jan 29 2009, 09:23 PM, said:

Whilst agreeing with the posts by CharlotteTheHarlot and by jaclaz, the goal-posts on this subject just moved with the release of exFAT for Windows XP.

See the KB article for details and the download link.

Thanks for the heads up.

Of course this will draw a neat line between Vista/XP and previous OS's.

Let's hope we'll have soon a 9x/Me and 2K (besides Linux, for which an experimental - read only - driver has been made and things seem to be "in the works" ).

jaclaz

[CharlotteTheHarlot]

James_A, on Jan 29 2009, 03:23 PM, said:

Whilst agreeing with the posts by CharlotteTheHarlot and by jaclaz, the goal-posts on this subject just moved with the release of exFAT for Windows XP.

See the KB article for details and the download link.

That would mean re-formatting the drive first, of course...

Thanks for that! Awesome find James_A

Note the hype ...

 
The exFAT file system incorporates several improvements over FAT32.
However, it keeps the simplicity of FAT-based file systems.
These improvements include the following key [b]advances[/b]: 

* Support for very large files and storage devices [color="#FF0000"]<----- obviously[/color]
* Support for performance improvements [color="#FF0000"]<---- I doubt it[/color]
* Support for extensibility features for future innovation [color="#FF0000"]<---- holding breath[/color]
* Added compatibility for flash media [color="#FF0000"]<---- ummm?[/color]  :wacko:  

@extremepilot ... sorry about the digression. You aren't trying to copy a file >4GB onto a FAT 16/32 formatted Flashdrive are you? NTFS is the quick answer which you can already do. What James_A has discovered is that we can now add exFAT (aka FAT64) to WinXP (Vista already has the ability) which will hopefully mean a selection of NTFS or exFAT when formatting these things. If you go to that link he provided you can grab the updater and this problem will be solved for you. You will have to reformat the Flashdrive naturally, and I will go out on a limb to say that you cannot just stick the FAT64 Flashdrive into any WinXP computer that does not have the exFAT update.

[jaclaz]

CharlotteTheHarlot, on Jan 30 2009, 09:42 AM, said:

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* Support for performance improvements <---- I doubt it
....
* Added compatibility for flash media <---- ummm?

Try reading the above as :

Quote

* Remove things introduced to slow down FAT32 on flash media

See here:
http://www.msfn.org/...opic=125116&hl=



jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: 30 January 2009 - 04:38 AM

[CharlotteTheHarlot]

jaclaz, on Jan 30 2009, 05:36 AM, said:

* Remove things introduced to slow down FAT32 on flash media

Ahh ... capisco paesano ... didn't think of that

jaclaz, on Jan 30 2009, 05:36 AM, said:

See here:
http://www.msfn.org/...opic=125116&hl=



jaclaz

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That's a good thread there. Have you seen any discussions where someone has installed and used MSKB 955704 on XP yet?

[jaclaz]

CharlotteTheHarlot, on Feb 1 2009, 09:31 AM, said:

That's a good thread there. Have you seen any discussions where someone has installed and used MSKB 955704 on XP yet?

Yes , see cdob's report here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...20&start=20

He even succeeded in booting XP from exfat32 using the "XP Kansas City Shuffle"!

The only file actually needed is the exfat.sys, to access Read/Write:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=22584&hl=
all the others are for formatting and a few other non-basic functions.

It's still a "mistery" the modified shell32.dll.

jaclaz