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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, Ubuntu can read and write to Windows partitions by default, thanks to ntfs-3g driver. You can test it from an Ubuntu Live DVD/USB. Nov 28, 2015 at 17:38
  • 1 thing to add: disable hibernation on windows.
    – Rinzwind
    Nov 28, 2015 at 17:41

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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.

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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.

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