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I just have a question to see if I can do something. I plan to Dual Boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04. I'm wondering if I can add a ...
  1. 06-11-2007 #1
    ElecNinja
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    Dual Boot + Partition

    I just have a question to see if I can do something.
    I plan to Dual Boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04. I'm wondering if I can add a third partition that has no OS running it as a storage partition?
    So that I can use it to transfer information between both OSes.
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    Linux has by default ntfs read and by installing ntfs-3g also ntfs write. So you can have a third partition for data. Also there are applications for windows in order to read/write ext2/3 partitions.
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    If you plan on creating another partition, you may want to create it as a logical partition. Most hard drives don't allow more than 4 primary partitions so if you ever wanted to create another partition in the future (say to install a different Linux distro) you would need a logical partition anyways. It's not difficult, really no different than creating a regular partition. You can use the GParted Live CD.
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