I have a USB stick. I needed to format it a certain way to download and install to fix up my Xbox One. It said to format the USB to an NTFS (what ever that is, I have no idea what they mean.) So my USB is in NTFS.

Now my wife wants to download some music to the USB because her mother passed away and we need it for the church to play the music for her funeral. So my question is, is the USB in NTFS format mode ok to download the music and the church be able to play it or does the USB need to be in another format for the music to be able to be played? If so what and how should I format the USB so it can be used to play music at the funeral?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

FAT32 format is understood by everything, that's a safe bet. NTFS is Microsoft's format, though most of everything does use Microsoft's system But to be safe, use FAT32.

Thank you so much ToJKa. I have just formatted it to FAT32. Greatly appreciated. One less thing to worry about now.

Thank you again.

Fat32 is fine for small files, but you can't transfer any large files using it.

Yes, there are file and drive size restirictions, but i don't think those will be a problem with a USB drive and music files

I had an external HDD that i had to make a partition in FAT32 to use with my PS3, i think the max size was ~30GB, and i had no issues storing and playing movies on it that sized around 800MB.

Also, there is no reason to use NTFS on USB sticks, unless you really need support for files over 4GB in size. !!!

Compatibility is the main reason why you probably want to use the FAT32 file system on your USB flash drive(s).

While modern OSs will support NTFS, other devices you use may not. For example: DVD Players, Smart TVs, Printers, Digital Cameras, Media Players and so on...(newer generation models will obviously work with NTFS),

but you can’t count on it - so, you should probably assume that some devices can only read FAT32, and not NTFS.

This is why you really want to use FAT32 on your USB sticks, so you can use them with almost any device. There’s not much to gain from using NTFS on a USB stick.

NTFS or exFAT, not much reason for FAT32 these days.

Just curious, does the X-Bone "allow" the use of non-microsoft sticks? The 360 certainly did not.

I've used both Sandisk and Transcend USB sticks on the Xbox 360 just fine.

Try plugging in your USB flash drive after the console starts up, and that's FAT32 formatted.

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XBOX 1 should be compatible with the most USB flash or external drives out there.

If you have a USB 3.0 external drive that has a capacity of over 256 GB, you can use it to store games and apps, or you can use the drive to store media.

If you have a USB drive that's not USB 3.0 you can still use it to store media.

XBOX 1 will recognize that you attached an external HDD, and you will be asked if you want to format it (you need to). Also, you can give your HDD a name if you want.

Once you attach an external HDD to the XBOX 1, it will become the default storage device for all new content you download.

You can even move your previously downloaded content to your external HDD, so that you can move that content to another place or friend.

Up to 2 drives can be attached to the XBOX 1 at once.

Not to derail the thread, but I have tried both FAT32 and NTSF with my PNY 8GB sticks and can not transfer my Madden NFL Highlights to them. Most of the time, my PC reads nothing on them. One time, I got about 14 hours of my PC's music on the sticks, even though there were no files like that on my 360

I most likely am doing something wrong,

Doesn't it depend about how large or small diskspace a USB stick has when using a disk format e.g FAT, FAT32, NTFS, but also what OS you're using Windows vs Linux ?

No. FAT32 has a hard filesystem limitation on files not being larger than 4GB

I didn't know that.

Anyway, what I was referring to was my old USB stick called Secure Pen Drive, which is unique and what I mean by that is that it has a floppy device built-in. So when I plug it in I got a - B - floppy on my old computer with not so big USB HDD of 64 Gb.