Clayton wrote: >> I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a >> different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, <sigh> >> >> Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. > > The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions > are Reiser, my XP partition was NTFS. Linux can read NTFS with no > problems... so on the rare occasion I needed to snag a file from the > XP partition, I can. On the other hand if I happened to be booted to > Windows (err.. something I haven't done in ages) I had a small util > installed there that could read Reiser partitions... so I could copy > from the Linux partitions to the NTFS partitions. > > OK, it's one way.. copying from the foreign fs to the local... but it > works.. and no risk of corrupting the foreign fs because you're > accessing in ro mode.
What I did on my notebook, was create a FAT32 partition and move the "My Documents" folder to it. This way either OS can read & write the files. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
