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First post, by feipoa

Posted on 2018-10-19, 08:23

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I am using an NEC USB 2.0 PCI card in a Tualatin system with Windows 2000 SP4 installed. I have an FAT32 formatted 8 GB USB stick. When I try to transfer files over to the USB stick, I get slapped with an error:

The file 'filename' contains more than one data stream, but the destination volume does not support this feature. Some data wil […]
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The file 'filename' contains more than one data stream, but the destination volume does not support this feature. Some data will not be preserved as a result.

Information that will not be preserved includes:

:Zone.Identifier:$DATA

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What does this mean? Exactly what data is lost? I do not receive this error when using XP Pro on the same computer.

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Reply 1 of 7, by Disruptor

Posted on 2018-10-19, 09:00

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This is a software issue.
It seems you're copying files from NTFS to a FAT filesystem.

NTFS files may contain additional files in alternative data streams.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn392609.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Alte ... eams_(ADS)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternativer_Datenstrom

It seems you copy files that were downloaded from the internet to a local NTFS filesystem to a FAT filesystem.
This alternative data stream contains information that a file may be opened or executed directly from the HDD without presenting the initial security warning again. There is no problem to skip this information when copying that file(s), because you do not need this particular data stream.

Reply 2 of 7, by feipoa

Posted on 2018-10-19, 09:49

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I figured it was something like that. But the issue doesn't occur with Win XP. Is there a way to patch W2K to act like XP inasmuch as file copying to USB sticks is concerned?

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Reply 3 of 7, by DosFreak

Posted on 2018-10-19, 10:38

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It's probably a group policy or registry setting.

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Reply 4 of 7, by mrau

Posted on 2018-10-21, 20:16

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that thing exists since win xp afair

Reply 5 of 7, by yuhong

Posted on 2018-10-23, 10:06

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This is the Zone.Identifier used since XP SP2 for most downloaded files. Under it you can right click and select "Unblock" to remove it.

Reply 6 of 7, by feipoa

Posted on 2018-10-23, 18:21

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What's the advantage of it?

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Reply 7 of 7, by DosFreak

Posted on 2018-10-23, 20:03

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Another option is to use robocopy. Not sure if the downloadable ver has the feature but the one included in Windows 10 allows you to exclude streams.
Think you would at least have to modify the PE header to get the Vista+ versions to run though.

Sysinternals streams.exe can delete ADS from files.

https://wiert.me/2011/11/25/windows-killing-t … -warning-popup/

or mabye just using NTFS on the USB stick would be the best option

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