On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:30:47 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > NTFS is more rebust than FAT and recovers better from crashes. > If you have a screwed up FAT32 partition you'd be best off using a > Windows disk repair tool to try to fix it. I did try using a repair tool but that did not work, so i presume it was a virus (just guessing) and used the alternative longer method, but now we are slowly trying to reduce the dependence on M$. btw, does ntfs patch provide support to all distros ? -- MR