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Ampi
September 17th, 2009, 05:15 PM
I have a dualboot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu. When I work in Ubuntu I can see all my documents, including the ones from Windows. When I am in Windows I can only see the documents of Windows.
Is there an easy way to change this now without changing partitions or is it easier to install my Data next time on a second Primary partition, like this?

PP1 Windows NTFS
PP2 Data Ext3
EP Linux
(Now I have: PP1, windows NTFS; EP Linux with Data)

I would like to know this because a friend of my is partitioning a new harddisk and he would like to be able to see his files also when booting from Windows.
Yvan300
September 17th, 2009, 05:43 PM
all you have to do is install the driver in windows that allows you to read from ext3. I'm not sure if it is available for windows 7 but i guess in your situation, you should put your home partition on a seperate partition and format it to fat32.
pyroclastic
September 17th, 2009, 06:03 PM
I have a dualboot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu. When I work in Ubuntu I can see all my documents, including the ones from Windows. When I am in Windows I can only see the documents of Windows.
Is there an easy way to change this now without changing partitions or is it easier to install my Data next time on a second Primary partition, like this?

PP1 Windows NTFS
PP2 Data Ext3
EP Linux
(Now I have: PP1, windows NTFS; EP Linux with Data)

I would like to know this because a friend of my is partitioning a new harddisk and he would like to be able to see his files also when booting from Windows.


try this link (http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/) i think this is what u need.
Ampi
September 19th, 2009, 09:43 AM
So that software doesn't let you edit any files? Is it just read-only?
That would be good for me, because I already have the harddisk partitioned. But for the new harddisk it is better to format to fat32, right?
Bartender
September 19th, 2009, 03:02 PM
Just my opinion, but I think people are moving away from FAT32 when creating a partition that both OS'es can access. FAT32 wastes a lot of space, it's not very efficient, etc. I've got a big external HDD for storage. It's formatted NTFS. Ubuntu has not had any problems reading or writing to it.