Dual boot Win and Ubuntu

[Deadshot_0826]

So I have a quick question about dual booting. I have two ssds in raid 0 and those will be my boot drives for both OSes but I also have a 3tb WD green. How will ubuntu treat that disk when installed?

[TetraSky]

You mean the 3TB WD green?
It will treat it as a regular storage drive... Even if it's formatted as NTFS, you will still be able to open it. (might need to get the required files for it in the synaptic manager, though I believe that's no longer an issue is the latest versions of Ubuntu...)

[Deadshot_0826]

@TetraSky so what should I do if I want to use that for mass storage in ubuntu... should I just make a folder for Ubuntu in it and then I will be fine or will I have to backup and reformat?

[Sakkura]

If you're just storing media files on it, you can access it just fine from both Ubuntu and Windows. Only things like programs would be tied to either OS.

[Deadshot_0826]

so on ubuntu can I install steam games on the hard drive and run them normally or do I need to do something special?

[EpicAdom]

so on ubuntu can I install steam games on the hard drive and run them normally or do I need to do something special?

If you are just talking about installing a game thru Ubuntu and then running it on Ubuntu, that should work fine. (The same for Windows)

 

It would not work across OSes

[Deadshot_0826]

Thanks Guys!