Didn't you mean most dos doesn't support ntfs? Yep, There is a limit on file size, but I rrestore often from my large 80gig partitions which are fat32. Dos reads them fine, you just have to keep each file smaller than 2 gig. Image for dos or image for windows does that fine. I need to figure out a good way to back up my i r l p Linux box, would like to just mirror the drive which has 3 partitions--just in case. 73s Butch Bussen wa0vjr On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Doug Sutherland wrote: > DOS can only access 2GB partitions, and 2GB is small for winxp, > I'd suggest at least 5GB for that. Also most versions of DOS do > not support FAT32, but here's a list of which do: > > http://www.cn-dos.net/msdos71/dosfat32.htm > >> I would suggest installing XP on a FAT32 partition, as then you can have a >> DOS floppy to access the drive, if you need to. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >