Accessing a Linux Partition While Running Windows
Viewing your Windows files in Ubuntu isn't too stressful, as you have no doubt just found out. But what about going the other way and getting Windows to recognize your Linux partition? Unfortunately, Windows isn't too helpful in this respect—it can only view FAT or NTFS-format partitions and has no built-in support for the ext format normally used by Linux. As such, if you need access to your Linux files in Windows, it's probably easiest to create a separate FAT partition to be shared between both operating systems (see Appendix C). Hmmm, not exactly convenient.
An alternative is to add support for Linux partitions into Windows by installing some extra software. Unfortunately, the state of such ...
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