Rayek
Recovering Sega Addict
Okay, I am totally new with Linux, to get that out of the way.
I have just bought a nice, new 200 gb hard drive, and would like to set up Linux on a partition, and use the harddrive I have now to boot with Windows, when I want to play games.
I plan on having 2 partitions on the new drive, and the one partition on the old drive. One of the partitions on the new drive will be for Linux storage and installing the Linux distro I choose onto it, and the other partition will be for storage for both OSs.
Herein lies my problem:
Windows WILL NOT recognize any files written by Linux, but Linux can recognize files written by Windows.
My Questions:
How should I format the new drive (With a Windows disk or a Linux disk)?
What filesystem should I use (FAT32 is what I was thinking)?
How do I switch between OSs during startup? I heard you can't use the Windows bootloader to do so, so I don't know what to do there.
Thank you for your time, Mandriva, here I come!
I have just bought a nice, new 200 gb hard drive, and would like to set up Linux on a partition, and use the harddrive I have now to boot with Windows, when I want to play games.
I plan on having 2 partitions on the new drive, and the one partition on the old drive. One of the partitions on the new drive will be for Linux storage and installing the Linux distro I choose onto it, and the other partition will be for storage for both OSs.
Herein lies my problem:
Windows WILL NOT recognize any files written by Linux, but Linux can recognize files written by Windows.
My Questions:
How should I format the new drive (With a Windows disk or a Linux disk)?
What filesystem should I use (FAT32 is what I was thinking)?
How do I switch between OSs during startup? I heard you can't use the Windows bootloader to do so, so I don't know what to do there.
Thank you for your time, Mandriva, here I come!