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jerric8
jerric8
1 year ago

For Linux, external hard drives (HDDs) formatted with the Windows file system NTFS or FAT32 can also be read and described:

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/filesystem/

While it is easier on Windows to partition and format the disks with Windows file systems.

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CLEBA
CLEBA
1 year ago

Answer is yes.

Linux can actually read all common file systems used on Windows. Speak Fat32 NTFS or exfat.

others are getting a shoe out.

Linux often uses other file systems, such as ext4 or btrfs, which cannot be easily opened under windows.

but if you could previously open and describe the disk under Windows, you can change anything further, and then delete or write it under linux files, you can also open it under Windows with the changed files.

(if the hard drive has not been removed correctly before on Windows, or the computer has not been driven down in a copy while the corresponding disk was connected, it is possible that there is no write access under Linux – this fits for example in system hard disks)

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10tel
10tel
1 year ago

By USB cable I connect my Ubuntu computer with an external hard drive that was previously described under Ubuntu. And can read it perfectly with the file manager.

Since there are various data formats, I don’t know if Linux can read all.

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desnake3
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desnake3
1 year ago
Reply to  10tel

You have to rewrite the hard drive, right?

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10tel
10tel
1 year ago
Reply to  desnake3

If you don’t need the data, you can format the hard disk. You can’t rewrite a record you can’t read.

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