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Originally Posted by Beleaguered

Linux has long had support for reading & writing fat/fat32 formatted drives and more recently there is read only support for ntfs formatted drives. And, Knoppix is Linux, it's just a distribution that boots from CD. It's great tool for emergencies and it's an easy start to Linux for n00bs.

You know what? Now that you mention it, I knew that . I'm ot used to thinking in terms of Linux, so I must have stored that bit of info in some dark corner of my brain (one of the many). I doubt that I'd start with Knoppix when learning though. I'll probably dive right in and format a drive and start from scratch with full distro on a dual boot (Win/Linux) or maybe just setup a dedicated Linux box.

Thanks for the reply.

Time to burn that CD...