[Discussion] HPFS & WinXP

[Dave Yeo]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:59:29 GMT, Brian Grawburg wrote:

>I have a 60 GB USB hard drive that has a couple of HPFS partitions and enough free space to make a FAT32 partition.  This is my only data backup and I worry tht should my Thinkpad "go south" I will have no way to copy my data to another computer which will only be available as a Windows machine.  Is the only solution to create the FAT32 and keep duel copies of everything? Will I be able to read/write to the FAT32  (eCS 1.2R)?

Linux reads and writes HPFS fine. One possibility is to use a live CD
to read the HPFS partitions and copy them to something else (FAT32?) if
you lose your OS/2 install.
Note that not every Linux distribution ships with HPFS so you should
test. IRRC Ubuntu does support HPFS out of the box.
Dave