MartinM wrote: Maybe its not the drive as such but the file system on it ? W98 can only read FAT-based file systems, whereas W2K and beyond can read both FAT32 and NTFS. Linux beats Win98 again. For more than 2 years http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ Linux has had stable NTFS read/write support. cache of http://www.ntfs-3g.org Note also that this works on all POSIX-compliant platforms (aka Unix-like OSes). It's hard to find a Linux distro today that doesn't include this by default. cache of http://www.ntfs-3g.org/distributions.html ...and Linux supports DOZENS of filesystems: cache of http://www.math.uni-wuppertal.de/~buhl/teach/exercises/OS2008/Betriebssysteme.pdf (page 47) ...including some really SMART ones that don't require defragging. cache of http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/items/defragment/index.php from the Usenet Archive -- mozilla.support.seamonkey -- user "NoOp" Have I mentioned yet that Linux is FREE?
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