Originally posted by firebane
Don't use NTFS, its a waste of time. Go with Fat32 .. that way if something messed up you can read your hdd with a dos boot disk. NTFS isn't recognized by DOS and you end up screwed, take my personal advice on this.
fat32 is more proned to crashes(file system wise).
but ur right about not beng able to read it. You'll need a ntfs reader such as "ntfs pro"...which most people do not have on hand.
My personal advice is still ntfs...with xp you'll most likely NEVER run into a problem if you take proper "computer maintenence".
Dave