I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
What is your HDD's largest partition size?
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 18:59:04 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 3/9/2022 5:15 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
My 128GB USB stick is 128,980,615,680 bytes.
That is short of any limit that I know of.
That should work fine.
Paul
Does the free space of C: matter because the System needs to create a >temporary file in order to save to the USB stick?
Is that why you asked the question you did?
By the way, Tnx for answering.
On 3/9/2022 5:15 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
My 128GB USB stick is 128,980,615,680 bytes.
That is short of any limit that I know of.
That should work fine.
Paul
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 18:59:04 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 3/9/2022 5:15 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
My 128GB USB stick is 128,980,615,680 bytes.
That is short of any limit that I know of.
That should work fine.
Paul
Does the free space of C: matter because the System needs to create a temporary file in order to save to the USB stick?
Is that why you asked the question you did?
By the way, Tnx for answering.
On 3/9/2022 7:23 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 18:59:04 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 3/9/2022 5:15 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
My 128GB USB stick is 128,980,615,680 bytes.
That is short of any limit that I know of.
That should work fine.
Paul
Does the free space of C: matter because the System needs to create a
temporary file in order to save to the USB stick?
Is that why you asked the question you did?
By the way, Tnx for answering.
"Paul In Houston" and "Paul" are two different people.
I'm the guy who is not in Houston.
I'm not aware of a mechanism, where the size of the USB
stick is constrained by the size of the C: partition
or the hard drive C: is on.
You are free to use your USB flash stick 128GB as you please.
*******
"Paul In Houston" may be thinking of a case, where you have
a USB enclosure (box that holds a hard drive) and you place
a hard drive inside it, and there might be rules for that.
WinXP does not support GPT partitioning, and MBR partitioning
uses 32-bit numbers for some of the fields and that causes a
relatively large limit of 2.2TB when trying to describe such things.
There are two ways a person can lay down a partition.
Normally, the MBR comes first, and the first partition
starts at a certain offset from the beginning. That's
the "normal" way to do it.
+-----+----------+--------------------+
| MBR | "track0" | D: MyDataPartition |
+-----+----------+--------------------+
But you can also start a single partition right at the
very beginning of the USB flash stick. The first sector in such
a case, has "NTFS" text string in it and the partition
just occupies the entire device. There might not be
a size limit (for data purposes) if it is done that
way, but then again, you can't put a boot OS on it
that way. The first sector will also end in 0xAA55 in
the same way that an MBR would end when initialized
properly.
+-------------------------------------+
| D: MyDataPartition |
+-------------------------------------+
By avoiding the usage of the MBR, think of the magical
things that are possible :-)
*******
If you needed to simulate this, I have seen some new
capabilities added to virtual machines, which can be
used for "try before you buy" on USB sticks. But at the
moment, this would be bar bet material, in terms of
getting it set up. It's not all that practical.
Microsoft has some free virtual machines (a container
with an OS inside it), and that saves the frustration of
dealing with the WinXP SP3 CD when installing WinXP into
a VM. Even though the copy of the free VM has been removed
from the microsoft web page, you can still get it :-) But
again, a PITA, as the site allowing the download of it, runs
at 300KB/sec (sloooow).
"Much fun can be had... for just pennies a day".
You can see I am easily amused.
Paul
On Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:23:52 -0600, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 18:59:04 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 3/9/2022 5:15 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
My 128GB USB stick is 128,980,615,680 bytes.
That is short of any limit that I know of.
That should work fine.
Paul
Does the free space of C: matter because the System needs to create a >temporary file in order to save to the USB stick?
Is that why you asked the question you did?
By the way, Tnx for answering.
I think I might have found the answer here -
https://www.diskpart.com/articles/copy-4gb-or-larger-file-to-usb-0708.html
On 3/9/2022 7:23 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 18:59:04 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 3/9/2022 5:15 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my
TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB
size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
My 128GB USB stick is 128,980,615,680 bytes.
That is short of any limit that I know of.
That should work fine.
Paul
Does the free space of C: matter because the System needs to create a
temporary file in order to save to the USB stick?
Is that why you asked the question you did?
By the way, Tnx for answering.
"Paul In Houston" and "Paul" are two different people.
I'm the guy who is not in Houston.
I'm not aware of a mechanism, where the size of the USB
stick is constrained by the size of the C: partition
or the hard drive C: is on.
You are free to use your USB flash stick 128GB as you please.
*******
"Paul In Houston" may be thinking of a case, where you have
a USB enclosure (box that holds a hard drive) and you place
a hard drive inside it, and there might be rules for that.
WinXP does not support GPT partitioning, and MBR partitioning
uses 32-bit numbers for some of the fields and that causes a
relatively large limit of 2.2TB when trying to describe such things.
There are two ways a person can lay down a partition.
Normally, the MBR comes first, and the first partition
starts at a certain offset from the beginning. That's
the "normal" way to do it.
+-----+----------+--------------------+
| MBR | "track0" | D: MyDataPartition |
+-----+----------+--------------------+
But you can also start a single partition right at the
very beginning of the USB flash stick. The first sector in such
a case, has "NTFS" text string in it and the partition
just occupies the entire device. There might not be
a size limit (for data purposes) if it is done that
way, but then again, you can't put a boot OS on it
that way. The first sector will also end in 0xAA55 in
the same way that an MBR would end when initialized
properly.
+-------------------------------------+
| D: MyDataPartition |
+-------------------------------------+
By avoiding the usage of the MBR, think of the magical
things that are possible :-)
*******
If you needed to simulate this, I have seen some new
capabilities added to virtual machines, which can be
used for "try before you buy" on USB sticks. But at the
moment, this would be bar bet material, in terms of
getting it set up. It's not all that practical.
Microsoft has some free virtual machines (a container
with an OS inside it), and that saves the frustration of
dealing with the WinXP SP3 CD when installing WinXP into
a VM. Even though the copy of the free VM has been removed
from the microsoft web page, you can still get it :-) But
again, a PITA, as the site allowing the download of it, runs
at 300KB/sec (sloooow).
"Much fun can be had... for just pennies a day".
You can see I am easily amused.
Paul
bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:23:52 -0600, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 18:59:04 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 3/9/2022 5:15 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my >>>>> TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB >>>>> size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
My 128GB USB stick is 128,980,615,680 bytes.
That is short of any limit that I know of.
That should work fine.
Paul
Does the free space of C: matter because the System needs to create a
temporary file in order to save to the USB stick?
Is that why you asked the question you did?
By the way, Tnx for answering.
I think I might have found the answer here -
https://www.diskpart.com/articles/copy-4gb-or-larger-file-to-usb-0708.html
I can't remember if Windows XP SP3 can do exFAT if you want more
compatibilty instead of NTFS.
Paul wrote:
On 3/9/2022 7:23 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 18:59:04 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On 3/9/2022 5:15 PM, bb@gigglemail.com wrote:
I have some very large videos - MP4s - that I wish to play through my >>>>> TV via Rocku. I'm wondering whether to get 64 GB ones or the 128 GB >>>>> size.
Are there any problems with USBs that size with XP?
My 128GB USB stick is 128,980,615,680 bytes.
That is short of any limit that I know of.
That should work fine.
Paul
Does the free space of C: matter because the System needs to create a
temporary file in order to save to the USB stick?
Is that why you asked the question you did?
By the way, Tnx for answering.
"Paul In Houston" and "Paul" are two different people.
I'm the guy who is not in Houston.
I'm not aware of a mechanism, where the size of the USB
stick is constrained by the size of the C: partition
or the hard drive C: is on.
You are free to use your USB flash stick 128GB as you please.
*******
"Paul In Houston" may be thinking of a case, where you have
a USB enclosure (box that holds a hard drive) and you place
a hard drive inside it, and there might be rules for that.
WinXP does not support GPT partitioning, and MBR partitioning
uses 32-bit numbers for some of the fields and that causes a
relatively large limit of 2.2TB when trying to describe such things.
There are two ways a person can lay down a partition.
Normally, the MBR comes first, and the first partition
starts at a certain offset from the beginning. That's
the "normal" way to do it.
+-----+----------+--------------------+
| MBR | "track0" | D: MyDataPartition |
+-----+----------+--------------------+
But you can also start a single partition right at the
very beginning of the USB flash stick. The first sector in such
a case, has "NTFS" text string in it and the partition
just occupies the entire device. There might not be
a size limit (for data purposes) if it is done that
way, but then again, you can't put a boot OS on it
that way. The first sector will also end in 0xAA55 in
the same way that an MBR would end when initialized
properly.
+-------------------------------------+
| D: MyDataPartition |
+-------------------------------------+
By avoiding the usage of the MBR, think of the magical
things that are possible :-)
*******
If you needed to simulate this, I have seen some new
capabilities added to virtual machines, which can be
used for "try before you buy" on USB sticks. But at the
moment, this would be bar bet material, in terms of
getting it set up. It's not all that practical.
Microsoft has some free virtual machines (a container
with an OS inside it), and that saves the frustration of
dealing with the WinXP SP3 CD when installing WinXP into
a VM. Even though the copy of the free VM has been removed
from the microsoft web page, you can still get it :-) But
again, a PITA, as the site allowing the download of it, runs
at 300KB/sec (sloooow).
"Much fun can be had... for just pennies a day".
You can see I am easily amused.
Paul
I was curious what hdd format (FAT32, NTFS, exfat, etc.) he is using and did not know his comp knowledge but figured that he would know partition size.
Can XP format a usb stick with FAT32 to 64 GB or 128 GB in one partition?
Tnx for the answer but that amount of know-how is beyond me.
I am going to buy one of those 64 or 128 GB sticks and screw around
with it, seeing what I can come up with. The price is low enuf.
Tnx to all again.
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