>> > XPHome uses NTFS just fine
>> Not not in the version sold in the UK it doesn't. You might be able to read
>> an already formated disk but you certainly can't create and NTFS partition.
> When I build a new computer to a customer and setup WinXP for the first
> time it defaults to using NTFS on the partition it creates
quite a few headaches should you install some other operating
system alongside XP on your machine. Last I checked for
instance Linux could read NTFS partitions, but write access was
still labelled "experiemental". OTOH it works wonderfully with
FAT32 partitions.
cheers & HTH,
uwe
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