and has been able to write them safely for a couple of years now
Is this turning into my major "dissagree with senior posters" thread ? (sorry BF)
There are
many versions of Linux that are perfectly happy writing to NTFS formatted partitions. I do it all the time.
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In fact, while I'm on a roll, I might as well disagree, in the purest sense, with BOAC as well !!
The utitlity you mention saying that 9X can read NTFS is only really a "save and dump" thing. IIRC, it doesnt work through windows file manager / explorer (adjust terminology to suit age of self). I do, however, as always, stand to be corrected.