Mount a Windows 7 Hard Disk, in Ubuntu?

[Billie Walsh]

On 02/10/2012 11:08 AM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> Why does Microsoft pretend that their OS is the only one out there. When
> you install Windows on a computer that has an existing Linux partition,
> they overwrite the boot sector and don't offer something like GRUB to
> allow allow alternate OSes to boot.  You have to use a Linux install
> disk to replace GRUB.   Why can't they just update GRUB to add the new
> Windows OS.   They also refuse to let their users view partitions
> created by other operating systems. Another problem is how they go out
> of the way to hide certain files.  This creates a good way to hide files
> related to malware.  Yes, I know that if you allowed Joe Sixpack tto see
> these files he would mett them up but can't you accomodate the
> experienced Windows user (perhaps by making him "jump through hoops"
> before accessing such files.  Linux does this with the sudo command.

It's kind of funny but when I updated my Windows Vista partition on my 
laptop to Windows 7 it didn't overwrite the boot sector. Up until I did 
a clean install of Kubuntu 12.04 grub still showed Vista as the Windows 
OS. Booted Windows 7 though.

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