Can multiple OS read one drive

[Leshadie]

So I have two hard drives on my computer. A ssd running windows and holding some games and another one just for everyday files. If I dual booted the ssd to also run Linux would Linux also be able to read the separate drive?

[ImperialSteele]

Ya, it would be under your devices menu in Nautalis.

[Leshadie]

5 minutes ago, ImperialSteele said:

Ya, it would be under your devices menu in Nautalis.

So I'm really new to Linux and idk what nautilus is. I'm sitting in front of an ubuntu work station and I'm not seeing anything by that name. Would I have to install that separately? 

 

Never mind! That's just the name of the file browser. Man I'm dumb. Thanks for your help!

[ImperialSteele]

Just type nautilus in terminal. It's the default GUI file system explorer for most Linux distros. Like Windows Explorer.

[ImperialSteele]

On the left side there should be a devices section, when you click into that it should have your second hard drive, and Windows partition of the SSD

[ImperialSteele]

No problem, glad to help! Happy Linuxing (it's a great OS :P)

[martward]

It does, but you may need to go into the bios to disable fastboot. There is one setting that causes Windows to turn off into some sort of hibernation, this will lock the hard drive and prevent you from opening it when you are on Linux.