Quote Originally Posted by ndb
Further to creating a persistent home directory, this will only work if the hard drive is formatted as FAT, not NTFS, which is the standard for WIN NT/2000/XP.

If the hard drive is NTFS, you can create a FAT partition; all warnings/cautions/'proceed at your own risk' applies. You should back up everything you can't leave without, and consider the possibility of a full reinstall/restore if something screws up.
Not anymore. This is one of the significant updates of 5.1.x, documented in the changelog. That is, being able to save/restore to NTFS partitions. I've been saving/loading my config to my first hdrive partition (NTFS) for over a week now. Haven't seen a single disk check upon return to XP. This week, I added a swapfile to the mix, also on /dev/hda1. So far, so good. I'm not recommending using this facil, only pointing out that it has been working for me (and others I presume).....