Joined: Sep 13, 2010 Posts: 2644 Location: Kamloops BC Canada
Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:38 am Post subject: The $64000 Question (This is NOT a contest for $64000)
This is something that has bugged me forever. Everybody knows you plug a USB drive formated FATX into a PC right away Windows says "Cant use it gotta format", but if you use Internet Explorer to FTP you can open up an XBOX drive using Windows Explorer,copy, move, delete stuff. Now why is this? You just used the same program that tells you FATX is unusable. My thinking is there must be a registry entry or something of that nature that causes the USB refusal. Maybe M$ thinking a USB can be used to juice it but FTP cant?
Any ideas?
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:52 am Post subject:
i am running windows 7 and when i put in a fatx drive it just opens to a blank folder till i use modio or 360explorer to read the content, never asks me to format?
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Joined: Sep 13, 2010 Posts: 2644 Location: Kamloops BC Canada
Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 3:00 am Post subject:
It always tells me I need to format before using, I never do it since like you I use 3rd party software. But Im wondering why you need 3rd party software at all since I use none with FTP. It just doesnt seem logical to me.
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 4:22 am Post subject:
With the FTP the PC is only reading the content and bypassing the container but when you plug in a usb drive it cant get past the container to read the content.
Its like the xbox reads the drive for your PC and its the same way when you put an xbox disk in your pc, it cant read it till you FTP in with Quix since it will read the disk content and bypass the container by letting the xbox read the content for your pc.
I hope this is making since to you bro since i don't know the tech terms for it.
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Joined: May 25, 2008 Posts: 176 Location: Elkhart, IN
Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 4:05 pm Post subject:
Its the same way you can samba share from a linux box. The OS takes care of the converting, think of the incoming data just like an octet-stream from a video capture device You can convert that to whatever format you want when you save it.
I got curious about this once and did some reading online. It is kinda hard to wrap your head around.
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