I've got flash drive/memory stick formatted as FAT32, what i'd like to be able to do i transfer files between my desktop (running XP) and my laptop (running FC4) using it, the problem is that FC4 doesn't reconise any files on the drive because it's FAT2 so is there any way around this? I had a look at WINE but it seems thats only for running Win32 programs, unless I didn't look hard enough.

Linux normally has pretty solid FAT support. Do you have the right kernel modules loaded?

Try asking around at whatever Fedora support sites there are, I know that in Ubuntu & Mandrake (and FC3 IIRC) USB keys are auto-detected and mounted. In my experience most USB keys are FAT formatted so information you find about Linux & USB keys should apply to yours.

Also try executing lsusb to see if the device is recognized.

The drive is detected fine, I know there was some files on the drive as when I plugged it back into my desktop I could view them.

noVum: could you elaborate a bit on that? I'm not really a Linux expert having only recently decided to give it a go properly.

Linux has great builtin fat support. I've never had any problems getting any distro to recognise my USB hard drive, USB flash drive, or fat hard drive partition.

How are you trying to access the drive from Linux?

It's all workin fine now, the drive was formatted into two partitions - a floppy disk and a hard disk. Turns out I was accessing the wrong one which was actually empty.

Thanks for all your help.