On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 10:13 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > That's a very reasonable attitude. What disturbs me about it is not > that Linux perhaps cannot do what I want so much as it is that everyone > at the time told me I was hallucinating, and that Linux had perfect > read access. But I tried multiple distros on an NTFS partition, and > all of them had problems reading that partition, which worked perfectly > with Windows NT. The file names which got screwed up were different > each time I tried the copy, even without changing the distro. Did you use any with the 'captive' driver approach? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_NTFS -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx