Dual Boot

[Roy Smith]

On 11/27/2010 09:55 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> On 10-11-27 10:20 PM, Nathan Bahn wrote:
>>
>> Wait a minute!  I thought dual-booting created partitions that cannot
>> be breached!
>> --N.B.
>> --
> No.  Windows has almost non-existent support for any filesystem not it's
> own, and therefore can't access the files on Linux partitions that are
> not formatted as FAT or NTFS, but that has nothing to do with
> un-breachable partitions.  Regardless, all Operating systems have to
> share the same Master boot record; there is only one for the system.
>
>
>

But wait...  Windows *can* access a Linux partition, though it does 
require installing third party software to enable it to do so.


-- 

Roy Smith
Linux Mint 10 \ Thunderbird 3.1.6
Registered Linux User #488144
11/27/2010 11:13:22 PM

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