Linux Can Access Windows Files, but It's Not Ideal Technically, you can move files around in a Linux-Windows dual boot system, but it’s not optimal.

You can use TestDisk as a rescue for Windows or Linux partitions, but you’ll need an Ubuntu live USB drive so you can boot into a separate environment on your PC, and then retrieve the lost files.

If you've had files deleted by a hacker or you've accidentally removed them, Jack Wallen shows you how to recover that missing data with a handy tool called testdisk.

We've shown you simple ways to recover accidentally deleted files, even a simple method that can be done from an Ubuntu Live CD, but for hard disks that have been heavily corrupted, those methods ...