The Fool wrote: > > Is the HD partition FAT, Fat32, NTFS or other? > Fat32
> And shouldn't you be ysung Windows 2000 or win98SE for your 'game > computer'? XP adds nothing but heartache and errors to a game-machine. > I bought the computer with Windows XP. > You should always keep your data (games, programs, etc.) on a different > partition (or hard disk) than your OS. > But the data is safe. I just don't want to have the trouble to reinstall a lot of things, mainly games like Sims 2, that take an enormous time with boring CD-switch. The XP OS is in a different physical HD. > If you can access your data in linux, move it to a different > partition, and reinstall (this time windows 2000). > I could do it, but it would take too much time, because there's more to save than free space [isn't this some Law of Informatics? Data expands to consume all available disk space and more?] I would have to select which files to save, which to abandon, which games to reinstall after the format. Again, data is safe [I am backup-paranoid: my problem is that sometimes undead files reappear and I have to slay them] but I don't want to lose the enormous time it would take me to F&R. Specially since all the data is there, Linux can access it, just Windows is blind to it. Hmmm... Could it be that somehow this is not a Windows bug or hardware bug but a _Linux bug_? Somehow Linux turned the partition from Windows-visible to Windows-invisible? Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
