Sharing Partition between Windows 10 and Linux Mint /Accessing Partion

[itsme220]

Greetings Experts




I have a netbook and installed windows 10. It is slow. So I have installed Linux in another partition.


I use cloud drive (Dropbox) to share some files. So I have created a separate drive and I want to install Dropbox in Linux and Windows point to same location so I can share the drive with in Linux OS and Windows on the same PC and sync to cloud. At a time I use either windows 10 or Linux Mint as OS is on the same PC.




My Disk configuration as follows
Please refer to the image.

Windows 10, The Disk Management shows as follows
There are many Primary Partion (I have created as Secondary Partition in Linux but Windows Detects as Primary partition). Also formatted in FAT32 is shown as unallocated partition.

Eevnthough Unallocated partition is allocated and formatted in FAT32, windows detects wrongly. I have tried to format. got the following message

My problem is as follows


1. I can access the Win32 dev/sda8 in Linux but in Windows I am unable to see the drive in Windows Explorer. But When I use Disk Management, I can see.


2. In Linux I can not access Win10 Partion dev/sda2 (Can not mount )


What is the best option for me to share a drive in two Operating System?
What should I do to access Windows Drive in Linux
How do I access Linux Drive in Windows 10?


Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[davidktw]

Greetings Experts




I have a netbook and installed windows 10. It is slow. So I have installed Linux in another partition.


I use cloud drive (Dropbox) to share some files. So I have created a separate drive and I want to install Dropbox in Linux and Windows point to same location so I can share the drive with in Linux OS and Windows on the same PC and sync to cloud. At a time I use either windows 10 or Linux Mint as OS is on the same PC.




My Disk configuration as follows
Please refer to the image.

Windows 10, The Disk Management shows as follows
There are many Primary Partion (I have created as Secondary Partition in Linux but Windows Detects as Primary partition). Also formatted in FAT32 is shown as unallocated partition.

Eevnthough Unallocated partition is allocated and formatted in FAT32, windows detects wrongly. I have tried to format. got the following message

My problem is as follows


1. I can access the Win32 dev/sda8 in Linux but in Windows I am unable to see the drive in Windows Explorer. But When I use Disk Management, I can see.


2. In Linux I can not access Win10 Partion dev/sda2 (Can not mount )


What is the best option for me to share a drive in two Operating System?
What should I do to access Windows Drive in Linux
How do I access Linux Drive in Windows 10?


Thank you in advance for your help.

Linux cannot natively mount NTFS. Refer to here for instructions http://www.tecmint.com/how-do-i-access-or-mount-windows-ntfs-partition-in-linux/

 

[librarian]

Not sure if this will help. The partition that you want to share the files for both Windows and Linux, you can use exfat. Depending on the version of Linux you use, do an installation of exfat-utils and fuse-exfat packages. I had some issues with transferring files backup in Linux to a Windows platform, and I found that exfat seems to work well for me.

 

[Entry Level PC]

Easiest solution is to use a thumbdrive or external hdd.

 

[librarian]

Easiest solution is to use a thumbdrive or external hdd.

It is not the media, but the filesystem. If your thumbdrive is formatted for NTFS, your linux operating system will not be able to read the content or files unless you have a NTFS package installed.