[LMB] AKICOTL: Technical question OT:

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Allums" <mark at allums.com>


> Michael Bauminger wrote:
>> On Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008 10:02 AM, Mark Allums 
>> <mark at allums.com> wrote:
>> 
> 
> Do you know of another option?  The drive will only be used with Windows 

what about buying a portable hard drive? It's more money, but.... 

> XP.  Compression is unlikely to be helpful.  Splitting the file into 
> smaller parts is what I wanted to avoid by buying the thing in the first 
> place.  Well, that and the extremely long time it takes to burn 
> DVD-ROMs.  Can Windows be taught to read and write ext2/ext3 or MINIX 
> file systems?  (Would they be any less fraught with danger than NTFS?)
> 
> Suggestions welcomed.