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To: Zoltar who wrote (55892)	8/4/1998 9:52:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

OT is there anyway i can view the files on my unix drive in windows. In short NO. Unix lives on a different partition type and would need to be read at a low level. Windows does not give the user access to a low enough level of the hardware to write a program that would read a different partition type. In theory you could write a Windows device driver which could see the partition but it would have to co-exist with the Microsoft drivers and getting information enough to write this would not be easy. OTOT - This is related to the question of why FAT32 is sometimes not recommended. Many utilities which would try to get to the disk directly, such as some tape backups or testing programs are not yet written for FAT32 and so if Windows breaks and refuses to run your program you can be out of luck. This is less of a problem if you put FAT32 only on a separate non-boot disk where you can backup the data regularly and restore the system with the older software anyway. TP