Read/Decipher files saved in XP os

[Andrew Farris]

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 17:38 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 01:53 -0700, Drake Prince wrote:                                                    
> >                                     After I install Ubuntu
> >                                     as my OS, can I access
> >                                     and use the great many
> >                                     files I have archived
> >                                     while I was using XP?                                                    
> 
>   Assuming that you did not overwrite that partition during install,
> Yes.

Just be aware, if you had 'drive compression' turned on in XP, you'll be
able to read the files, but not re-save them as the same file. You'll
have to save them as new files. My parents ran into this issue while
they were still dual-booting, so i just turned off the drive compression
and decompressed everything, and it all worked fine.  windows drive
compression is worthless anyway...it only saved them about 500mb of
space total from 40GB of data.

-- 
Andrew
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