Another OPPO 205 Question

mahler: Good suggestion which I will do and mental thanks for the tip on using solid state and NTFS format.

Thanks
Capeman 

@mahler...yeppers, format the new drive to NTFS and drop your files. For music I would spend a few extra $$$ and grab a SS drive for several reasons. HDD enclosure that allows swapping HDDs would be my suggestion. SSD's also last a lot longer than one that’s part of the OS constantly rewriting.

Can you just transfer the music files on the XP to a separate HD? HDs are cheap, and the 205 should be able to read an attached HD  (my 105 does).
How many files is it?  I think my old XP hard drive topped out at 100GB

Thanks: milpai 1
I have an XP with a lot of music stored and just never upgraded. It works fine into my AYON directly via usb but was looking to go thru the OPPO. I usually do not connect to internet so never had a problem with malware etc. 
Looks like I need to upgrade

Thanks
Capeman

@milpai ...to each his own I guess. I’ve used every MS platform from W98 to W10, W10 is an exploit that everyone has complained about due to the restrictions tweaking it for privacy and utmost for performance. The average MS user cares not about these things but those have have been online since the beginning know exactly what I’m referring to.
Web page design, code, custom gaming PC’s, security, my forte. It’s either something you grew up with or not.
I won’t even bother getting into Linux with ya.

OP,
Not sure why you did not migrate over to Win7/8/10. With the XP you are inviting trouble over the net. Especially because the support is gone and any loopholes that it might have is an invitation for malware into your system.
I am not sure why @mental indicates that Win10 sucks. It is the best Windows version in recent years.

XP has long been outdated, W7 won't be long behind it, and W10 just outright sux, if you're a tweeker...laffs