On Friday 01 Nov 2002 10:11 pm, you wrote: > At 03:49 PM 11/1/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >On Friday 01 Nov 2002 12:11 pm, you wrote: > > > technically you can, but by all accounts you still might as well throw > > > a d12 to determine if your files remain uncorrupted! mount read only > > > and use a shared fat partition if you wish to transfer files between > > > os's > > > > > > bascule > > > > > > On Friday 01 Nov 2002 7:21 am, Markus Bela wrote: > > > > Can I write W2 NTFS file system with MADK 9.0? Eralier this was > > > > poaaible to read only. > > > >I strongly support this statement. True, W2K is very much more stable > > than Win98, but after a long period of use I suddenly had a massive BSOD > > from which I could not recover, and I could not even re-install W2K > > again. I don't believe Linux was in any way responsible for this, but > > the point is that all my data was in fat32 partitions, and therefore > > safe. So, for my money, whether windows only or dual boot, I would use > > separate partitions for data always, and fat32 are the most useful if > > dual booting. I have a good many partitions, and have had no problems > > whatsoever with this. > > > >Anne > > Ironically (?) for me the one partition that corrupted was my FAT32 > partition with a bunch of info/personal stuff I was going to burn that > week for safe keeping :( > > Sigh > --- > Femme
Grin - my argument is that fat32 partitions are so easy to back up from either os, but human frailty persists .... Which reminds me, how long is it since I did a backup - 3 weeks, 4? Anne
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