jpardey wrote:Previously I'd have said just use FAT32. Anything can read it, and it has less overhead. But now there seems to be great support for NTFS under linux... could you just format it on someone's XP box?

That's probably what I'll end up doing, after I get a new hard drive.

Have you tried writing to the drive? Before I knew any better, I used an NTFS 200GB external all the time with my Ubuntu (7.1) machine. I've since re-formatted the drive to to Ext2 and use one of those freeware drivers to access it in Vista.

The drive is no good. It won't even mount at this point. I have to replace it. Micro Center ripped me off. Never again will I buy a hard drive from their closeout section.

Just thought I'd post this since it was mentioned and I was wondering about it myself.

Mounting an NTFS drive on Hardy Heron.