Re: Help with file transfer

From: David Lloyd Geering (dreamlax_at_phreaker.net)
Date: 07/27/05

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    dero in disguise wrote:
    > Nigel Robinson wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Can anybody suggest a solution
    >>I am new to linux. I have a dual boot sysyem running windows XP or linux
    >>fedora core 64 bit version.
    >
    >
    > is the windows box fat32 or NTFS?
    > if you have a partition that is fat32 you can copy from linux directly to
    > the fat32 partition/folder. I have always found that it is well worth
    > having a fat32 partition so as to ease copying from linux to windows.
    >
    > Am I to assume that it is a newly done clean XP install on the other
    > partition/device? You could always do an XP install and leave it as FAT32
    > and then copy the files across and then convert to NTFS but as I said it is
    > a good idea (at least in my mind) to have a fat32 partition for reasons
    > previously stated. The command line (or GUI) commands to copy these files
    > back are very simple. If you can provide some more information I will try
    > my best to help as will many others.

    FAT32 is an old file-system. It has no security whatsoever and is
    useless if it is interrupted. Mind you, the same goes for Windows... so
    I guess the two can pair up.

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