> You don't really need a crossover partition. There is NTFS drivers for
> Linux as well there is EXT drivers for Windows. The Linux NTSF drive is
> not stable and thus not recommended, but the EXT driver is quite stable
> and you could give your Windows XP full access read/write to Linux.
> here is the home of the driver http://www.fs-driver.org/

I found that I can access my NTFS drive from Kubuntu -- but I'm a little bit
afraid to do it. I've heard you can foul up the whole drive that way and
have to start over with Fdisk.

> Windows will attempt to monitor the drive and add a recycle bin folder.
> You can avoid that by disabling the monitoring of only this partition
> through the system monitoring tab from your system properties. Right
> click on recycle bin and disable the recycle bin there too.

Thanks for the info. At this point, I'm still a bit undecided what to do.
Have to consider all of it for a while.