[How To] Access Linux Files In Windows When Dual Booting Linux, Ubuntu, Linux Mint And Windows 10 / 8.1 | Linux Today

[How To] Access Linux Files In Windows When Dual Booting Linux, Ubuntu, Linux Mint And Windows 10 / 8.1

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Mohd Sohail
Sep 5, 2015

If you are dual booting Windows and any Linux distribution then I’m sure you would not have any trouble in accessing Windows files & folders in Linux because Linux distributions mount all Windows partition automatically. But what if you need to access any Linux files in your Windows OS then how to do that? This is what this article is all about. Windows does not mount any Linux partition automatically but we can do it. Let’s see how to access Linux partitions (Ext4 etc.) in Windows.

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Mohd Sohail

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