You can also just leave the volume formatted with ext and use ext2fsd, which is a driver for windows to let it understand the ext file system. I use it on mine and it works very well. I've had a few issues with a couple file names that linux wrote and windows wouldn't erase, but all I had to do was boot back to linux and take care of it through there.
That has been the only issue for me in a few years of using it. It's used daily, and for me has been absolutely reliable. Oops, just forgot one other issue. For a class I'm taking I had to install Visual C++, and for some odd reason the installer tried to grab the ext drive and use it as a temporary place to keep the uncompressed install files during the install, but there was something that didn't work quite right and it failed every time on the install. After a few hours of Google I found that the ext drive was the likely culprit, and after disabling it via the ext2fsd control panel the installer decided to use the C: drive for temp files and everything was good. That was annoying, but once I tracked it down very easy to deal with. Now that the program is installed it has no further issues with the drive. So it's really a decent choice, but if you have it working well enough with fat32 then ??? Erik On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Joe Pruett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> you should still use the 'remove safely' option as much as you can to > >> avoid unflushed buffers. fat32 is just less prone to corruption from > not > >> doing that > > > > Where is that feature found? > > it is either on the right click menu for the drive (vista has it, can't > recall if xp does). or you should have a removable device icon in your > task tray and if you left clikc on it, it should have options to remove > each kind of removable device on your system. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
