Thanks for your reply, sunburnt. I apologize for missing it earlier. The hard drive read speed is indeed the bottleneck in such an application. Modern CPUs have no problem beating the pants off the hard drive when it comes to compressed vs. uncompressed data. You can demonstrate this easily by ghost...

edoc, You said: If I want to be able to access files between the WinXP and Puppy sides I guess I need to backup the current WinXP side, wipe the disk and partition with something other than the default WinXP NTFS? If you have access to Partition Magic, you can use it to convert an NTFS volume to FAT...

Mark,

Thanks for your (slightly embarrassing but nonetheless) excellent solution. It is exactly what we need, and as a result Puppy will be our testing OS of choice for future endeavors as well.

-S

Hello, I apologize if this isn't the appropriate forum section for such a request. Please move it to a more appropriate section if this is the case. I'm just trying to get the best visibility I can for it among the regulars. I work for a major manufacturer of computer hardware and we're seriously co...