Lack of access to your data in a new operating system may be one of the most severe impediments for doing an OS migration. There is little personal incentive for users to switch to a system that can't ...

I didn't know whether this should be in the Microsoft forum or the Linux forum, so I chose this forum on a whim.<BR><BR>Anyway, the problem is, I need to copy some files from my Linux partition to a ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

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I decided to install Vista on my Thinkpad while I work out some wireless problems. I've had an ext3 partition that I mount as /data in Linux, so I thought I'd just mount it with ext2fsd. I did this, ...

Windows 10 isn’t the only (kind of) free operating system you can install on your computer. Linux can run from just a USB drive without modifying your existing system, but you’ll want to install it on ...

Are you considering dual booting Linux and Windows? Do you want to play it safe and avoid potential pitfalls before diving in? After a decade of breaking and fixing my multi-boot setups, I've compiled ...