I work away from home for weeks at a time, and I hurriedly set up my server on my last day at home last month

I got a free PC, and a 10tb HDD. Lenovo uses a stupid special cable to run sata drives off the motherboard, I didn’t know there were two sizes, bought the wrong size and said fuck it so I installed windows on the same drive and same partition I now have 4 tb worth of media

Now I want to move to Linux as my server OS, I got another PC that actually has the ability to run multiple HDDs

Can I access the files on this drive from another OS? Is there a way to keep these files without transferring it all to another HDD?

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    You can mount NTFS from Linux. You do not need anything from Linux to do it.

    In theory, you could continue using NTFS. I would not. Get those files off to somewhere else and reformat with something Linux native.