Oh yes, and I also have the NLS advanced player. It has the USB
port on the side. I've always been able to plug in a thumb drive
and play music or mp3 books. I'll have to try that one out.
Also I have a device called
IDEAWORKS Portable Audio Converter.
It takes audio from a stereo receiver tape out jacks (or something
similar) and records it on a thumb drive or an SD card. That thing
doesn't work on drives bigger than 8GB. I'll have to try it on
there, too.
Howard
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On 5/12/2021 10:10 AM, Gene wrote:
It will work in XP. I don’t know about the Victor
Reader.
Gene
-----Original message-----
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Using portable drive
on windows XP
'morning all;
Yesterday, I decided it was necessary to format one of my
thumb drives; a Sandisk 16GB. I had the choice of fat32 or
ntfs. I chose NTFS. Now I'm wondering which of my devices
this drive won't work any more on: the victor reader or my
XP machine. It's been too long since I learned about the
differences between disk formats. Ideas anyone?
Howard
On 5/12/2021 6:58 AM, Gene
wrote:
That’s not correct. XP uses the NTFS file system
when installing unless that is changed and it can
rread external hard drives formatted in that system.
Gene
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 6:48
AM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Using
portable drive on windows XP
Also
remember that XP can only use a drive that is
formatted in FAT32.
It isn’t clear to me, but if I
understand what I read, NTFS drives are
limited to 2TB. But a different file
system is used by larger drives and later
versions of Windows, at least starting
with Windows 7, can work with that file
system.
However, those with more technical
knowledge will, I hope discuss the
qquestion. If I understand this
correctly, this explains why the format
message appears; XP doesn’t recognize the
file system. But to be sure things are
working properly, do you have something
like a thumb drive or a smaller external
drive to try in the XP machine to be sure
it sees drives correctly?
I have a larger drive and XP machines
but I can’t test with any convenience. I
keep my larger drive off site, in other
words, away from home to further protect
what I back up.
Gene
-----Original
Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, May 11,
2021 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk]
Using portable drive on windows XP
Hi Veronica,
If it's only 2TB then XP should open
/ read it, but if it was larger than 2TB
then it wouldn't. What I don't recall
is what the message is that you would
get when trying to access a drive larger
than 2TB. Do you get the same
formatting message if you plug the drive
into a different USB port? I don't have
an XP machine to play with, so I'm
afraid I can't be of much help. I
believe Gene still runs XP, so maybe he
has a 2TB drive he can plug into his
system and see what if any message he
gets.
Stay safe and take care. Mike.
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Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk]
Using portable drive on windows XP
Hi Mike,
It is a 2 TB portable
drive, so that is probably the
issue. Thanks for that information.
What
size is your portable drive? XP
won't access / recognize or open
any drives that are larger than
2TB.
Stay
safe and take care. Mike.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2021 6:10
PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Using
portable drive on windows XP
Its not that easy. No
matter what I do it still asks to be
formatted.
Just say no and use
the drive anyway?
John
I decided to try
using my portable drive on windows XP
as I have MS Word on that computer and
I dont have MS Word on Windows 10.
However, the XP machine keeps asking
if I want to format disk E, which I
dont want to as I have not had to
format it on my other computers. So
is there any way that I can use the
portable drive on XP without
formatting it? Thank you for any
help.
Veronica
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