I created a ntfs partition with gparted, because I need to share some files between the two, and it worked ok under Vista.

Then, I mounted it with linux (with ntfs-3g), read some data, and now under vista it does a file check, everything seems ok, but when I try to access it, it says "E:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. "

It still works under Linux.

So, please help. What makes it work under Linux and not vista? Does vista access the filesystem diffrently or anything?

Also, any other suggestions on how I could alternatively share files between the two if this doesn't work? (some >4gb, so fat32 wouldn't work)

Thanks for your time. Any suggestion is welcomed

Unfortunately ntfs is complicated and ntfs-3g isn't 100% bug free.
You can format the drive as linux, you can use this to read linux drives from windows...

http://www.fs-driver.org/

Thanks for the quick reply

Just a few questions about the ext2 driver...

As far as I know, it also gives access to ext3 drivers. But... ext3 supports jurnalisation, ext2 doesn't... Also it can mess up file permissions... Is it safe to use? Can I make it access only certain drives or anything?

The website says...

http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html#acc_ext3

"Ext3 is backward-compatible to Ext2 - an Ext3 volume can be mounted and used as an Ext2 volume."
"So you can access only those Ext3 volumes with the Ext2 IFS software which have been cleanly dismounted beforehand."

So if your linux didn't crash the last time you rebooted it, it should be fine.

Hmm some piece of info I found later on...

The fs-driver doesn't work with ubuntu 8.10, (stuff related to the partition's inode size blabla) so this one http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd worked ok for me.

Thanks niknah for the suggestion to use ext3