How To Open Linux Files In Windows

Dual-booting (a special instance of multi-booting, running more than i operating system on the same computer) makes it possible to run Windows and Linux or other UNIX-similar operating systems on the same calculator. When set up up and functioning correctly, information technology gives y'all the option to choose what OS to kicking into.

Because of the nature of Linux, when you boot into the Linux half of a dual-boot system, you can access your information (files and folders) on the Windows side, without rebooting into Windows. And y'all can even edit those Windows files and save them back to the Windows one-half.

Information technology is a very simple procedure, and requires very little work on your part. This brief tutorial shows you how it is done when dual-booting a distribution that uses the GNOME or KDE desktop environment.

The package that makes it possible to write to an NTFS (Windows) partition is called ntfs-3g . On almost distributions, information technology is installed out of the box. If information technology is missing in the distribution that you are using, just apply the distribution's package manager to search for and install it.

If you are reading this from a distribution using KDE, the K Desktop Surround, open Dolphin, the file manager. The screen shot below shows what it should wait like. The Places panel, the panel on the left side of Dolphin, is where your attention should exist at this point. Aside from the folders on the Linux side, all the partitions and hard drives known to the system should be listed in the Places panel. For the partitions, their sizes are shown. If y'all know the size of the Windows partition, but click on it to open it in place.

You lot will know that you clicked on a Windows partition if yous come across the folders with names but similar the one shown in this epitome. To access the information in your abode folder, any one of the two folders circled should be the focus of your attention. Click on either one.

You should come across a bunch folders and some files, with some of the folders bearing the login or usernames of the user accounts. Observe the one that matches your login name and click on it.

That should open up the window to all files and folders that you own. You probably want to first expect in "My Documents" binder.

If you are reading this from a distribution that uses the GNOME ii or iii desktop environment, the process of accessing the files and folders on the Windows side is no different from the KDE example. Only start Nautilus, the file manager. The rest of this portion requires no further explanation as they are the same equally the KDE example.