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I think the answer to the question is Windows 7.But on the subject of Linux and NTFS, I gave up on it because while it worked perfectly on Linux (at least in 2011..), as soon as there is some slight corruption caused by e.g. power cycle without dismount , you can no longer create new files. You can recycle old ones into new ones, but the total number on the drive remains fixed.I was using a 2TB WD formatted NTFS out of the box as a backup drive connected via USB2 so I could move it to a Windows machine to recover the files (using rsync backups) if the Linux box failed.But because of the NTFS issue the backup failed after a while - I had to keep on reconnecting it to Windows and running scans on that to correct the problem. And because it was USB and the motherboard had a bad USB2 controller, It would take more than a day to do an incremental backup of the day's files whenever I loaded a few gigabytes of photos from the camera. So I switched the drive to an ESATA enclosure and formatted it ext2. Because you can get an installable ext2 mounter for Windows NT and later http://www.fs-driver.org. Benefits - doesnt silently go FUBAR . Incremental daily backups happen in less than an hour