Hello Plug, having XP run on ext2 or ext3: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd http://www.osr.com/toolkits_fddk.shtml http://www.osr.com/toolkits_fsdk.shtml http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ntifs.h cheers, Daniel.