I suppose I'll try that out when I get the DVD iso burned to a DVD.

I'll just create a small NTFS partition on a drive and then copy various file types to it while in XP.

Then in Knoppix I'll copy, append, modify and delete some files.

The acid test will be when I go back into XP and try the same thing. If Knoppix screwed anything up, XP will have serious problems with that partition.

I've never had problems reading and copying files from an NTFS partition to FAT32 or Linux FS.