I'm thinking about switching to Ubuntu because I absolutely hate windows 10. I have a separate hdd that has all of my media and games on it. If I install Ubuntu on my designated OS hdd can I access my media hdd from within Ubuntu and will I be able to have read/write capabilities?
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Yes. AFAIK all linuxes reads and writes just fine to NTFS partitions, as a matter of fact I formate most of my USB harddisks with Gparted as NTFS ! Why I hear you all ask? Well you see our windows machines only support Fat and NTFS - as do our settop boxes for the tellys, and I think thatv NTFS is better than FAT, at least it support large files- movies for viewing on the big screen or record them from the settopbox! This results in some mpeg2 files (transmission streams) somefiles.TS.
Yes. NTFS works fine with Ubuntu. If you plan to dual-boot windows and Ubuntu, I think NTFS would be your best choice of format because it would be readable on both.