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02.13.2008 at 10:35PM PST, ID: 23162208
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Asked by Harrris in Linux, Windows XP Operating System, Backup & Restore Software

Tags: Linux

I am currently using windows XP. I have two partitions on my hard disk, one for the OS and one for my data. I want to create a third partition and install Linux on it (the disk is very big so I don't have a capacity problem).

I want the "data" partition which is NTFS (it is 300GB) to be accessible (for read and write) from Linux as well. As I know, NTFS partitions can be mounted only as read-only in Linux. What I'm thinking to do is make that partition FAT32, so the data on it will be accessible both from windows and Linux. Is there any better way to do it ? am I going to have any problems with the data if I convert the file system to FAT32 ?

Also, with windows I'm using software (usually Norton Ghost) to make image files of the OS partition, so I can restore the OS partition if there is any problem. Is there any tool in Linux that can be used to do the same thing ? To make image files of the Linux partition, store them in another partition and restore them in the future.

Is there any Linux distribution which is most suitable for solving the above problems ?Start Free Trial
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