Can you suggest anywhere I could get a definitive answer on direct accessing Windows NTFS from Puppy? As I said, I think it should be OK but am a bit reluctant to risk it (The wife you know!). I also don't want to risk putting others at risk by suggesting it, they might have wives like ours too. (Years of watching the Puppy forums have convinced me that wives in general tend to be less than adventurous when it comes to letting their husbands play with the family computers, often with good reason.)