USB Drive Modifications

If on Win 7 Pro
what happens with a USB drive when used on Win XP Pro, Win 8 Win 10
if I compress the drive on Win 7?
if I encrypt the drive on Win 7?

What is encryption if I have no user log on?

backstory: I plugged a USB drive into my Win 7 laptop that was set up
and files copied to it while connected to a Win XP pro laptop.
I want to scan it so i let it do it.
Scan found NO errors then I was able to peruse the USB drive and open
files.
This is a USB drive that has no compression or encryption.

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OldGuy wrote on 2/10/2015 1:11 PM:
If on Win 7 Pro
what happens with a USB drive when used on Win XP Pro, Win 8 Win 10
if I compress the drive on Win 7?
if I encrypt the drive on Win 7?

What is encryption if I have no user log on?

backstory: I plugged a USB drive into my Win 7 laptop that was set up
and files copied to it while connected to a Win XP pro laptop.
I want to scan it so i let it do it.
Scan found NO errors then I was able to peruse the USB drive and open
files.
This is a USB drive that has no compression or encryption.

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I don't see a problem here.
You plugged in a USB drive
You wanted to scan it so you did
Scan found no errors.
You were able to peruse it and open files.
And you state the drive has no compression or encryption.

Isn't this the way things are supposed to work?

As for your first part of the post: I have no issues moving a thumb drive from Windows 8 to windows 7 to windows 10 to
Linux and reading and writing files all the way thru that whole path. I don't have XP but MS documentation says NTFS
if the preferred format on XP.

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OldGuy wrote on 2/10/2015 1:11 PM:
If on Win 7 Pro
what happens with a USB drive when used on Win XP Pro, Win 8 Win 10
if I compress the drive on Win 7?
if I encrypt the drive on Win 7?

What is encryption if I have no user log on?

backstory: I plugged a USB drive into my Win 7 laptop that was set up
and files copied to it while connected to a Win XP pro laptop.
I want to scan it so i let it do it.
Scan found NO errors then I was able to peruse the USB drive and open
files.
This is a USB drive that has no compression or encryption.

--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ---

I don't see a problem here.
You plugged in a USB drive
You wanted to scan it so you did
Scan found no errors.
You were able to peruse it and open files.
And you state the drive has no compression or encryption.

Isn't this the way things are supposed to work?

As for your first part of the post: I have no issues moving a thumb drive from Windows 8 to windows 7 to windows 10 to
Linux and reading and writing files all the way thru that whole path. I don't have XP but MS documentation says NTFS
if the preferred format on XP.

Only time might run across a problem in real life is going from windows
to a mc. I have one external hard disk formatted "exfat" to facilitate
that.