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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:18:27 -0500
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On Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:53:57 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Xocyll wrote: 

>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>say:
>
>>On Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:52:01 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Larger sticks default to EX-FAT instead of FAT32, when it is possible to
>>>format them as FAT32. They come that way, and Microsoft's format program
>>>won't even give you the option of FAT32 at larger sizes.
>>
>>Heheh. I bounced against this one hard when trying to update my
>>Windows98 computer to add a 300GB hard-drive. I'd remembered about
>>BIOS and FDISK limitations, but forgot that even on modern machines,
>>FORMAT wouldn't do more than a 32GB FAT32 drive.
>>(and EX-FAT isn't really a viable option for Windows98; there is a 3rd
>>party driver, but its not really ready-for-market yet)
>>
>>The limitation in Microsoft's format program is artificial; the
>>programmer had to pick /some/ limit and -at the time- 32GB seemed so
>>impossibly huge that it didn't seem to matter. Microsoft never updated
>>the program ... probably in part because they wanted to push people to
>>NTFS (less for control --since unlike FAT, NTFS isn't patented-- but
>>because FAT is such a primative and fault-intolerant file-system they
>>wanted people to stop using it ASAP to make Windows look less terrible
>>:-)
>
>Making MS Windows users change file systems to make windows look less
>bad, is a bit like forcing Yugo drivers to change the brand of tires
>they use to make the car less horrible.
>
>>>Any partition edit program or 3rd party formatter, however, will let you
>>>do this.
>>
>>Although it probably won't matter as much with a hard-drive mostly
>>used for movies and such, cluster-sizes for FAT32 drives past 32GB
>>becomes problematic too. If your device is -as I believe you
>>indicated- cable of reading a 2TB HDD, then it probably supports EXFAT
>>(or possibly other file systems as well). So just format your 1TB
>>stick with the appropriate file-system (e.g., not FAT32) so you get
>>full capacity (931gB) and you should be good to go. Even Windows will
>>manage that ;-)
>
>The device is a DVD/Blueray player.
>The 1TB stick is exFAT and it cannot see it.
>The 2TB external USB jack HDD is formatted NTFS.

Au contraire. You WANT FAT32. You just need to reformat it as such. It
will probably be "seen" then.

I mean, you don't have to /like/ FAT32, but it's what will work, IMO. If
the USB drive is NTFS, it might just read it formatted NTFS as well.

Cluster size may or may not matter. Large files? Doesn't really matter.

-- 
Zag

What's the point of growing up 
if you can't be childish sometimes? ...Terrance Dicks, BBC