From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 23:53:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E88637B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 23:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D7F43E9C for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 23:53:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by mailf.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB27rCMp009843; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 08:53:14 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3DEB114F.7030306@401.cx> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 08:52:47 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box References: <20021202070814.18661.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Neophyte wrote: > i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group... but i > was wondering if it was possible to physically mount a former FreeBSD disk > on a winxp box. > > i know someone would suggest that i mount the drive on the FreeBSD box and > get the files i need that way... however, this is not an easy process. it > would be alot easier if i could take the drive and use something to take > the files from my WinXP system. > AFAIK, this is not possible. FreeBSD can mount Windows filesystems, but the other way around is not true. As always, since m$ is the bigger one, the others have to follow their standards, while m$ itself doesnt care about anyone else's. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message