Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10

tux_tina

I have a dual boot system on same hard disk. Some of my friends say that dual booting a laptop can lead to its deterioration because some part of both OS keep running at once. It sounds weird but I can access my windows part of hard-disk from Ubuntu. Is it so? Should I remove either OS?

Originally asked by kneelb4darth on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Ignore what your friends say... the only "deterioration" that would be noticed is the normal wear and tear of your hard disk... if you do a traditional "dual boot" then only one operating system can be "in use" at any one time - i.e. you can't boot Windows and Ubuntu simultaneously. You can , however, access the Windows (NTFS) partition through Ubuntu. Ubuntu should have automatically identified that you have Windows installed and installed alongside it... this is they key... Ubuntu knows about (and can mount/read/write) the NTFS partition. See this AskUbuntu solution: https://askubuntu.com/questions/568577/pulling-files-from-a-windows-ntfs-partition-into-ubuntu

Full answer by Kinnectus: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1010694 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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