Dual Booting Query: Sharing HardDisk

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Hey recently i have been thinking a lot to dual boot my PC with XP and Kali Linux.. But i want to make sure if i can use the same hard disk for both the OS??

So anyone out there pls help

Partition the HDD and use different partitions for each OS.

SaiyanGoku said:
Partition the HDD and use different partitions for each OS.

See i have a 250GB harddisk with 4 partitions
I want that-
1st partition= Windows
2nd Partition= Linux
3rd Partition=Storage
4th Partition= Storage
But can i use both storage partition(3,4) for both the OS or i have to make uniquely for each OS

AFAIK, Linux os can access windows partitions (NTFS), but windows can't access Linux partitions (ext4). So better format those storage partitions as NTFS.

SaiyanGoku said:
AFAIK, Linux os can access windows partitions (NTFS), but windows can't access Linux partitions (ext4). So better format those storage partitions as NTFS.

thanks for the Info..
So, can you give me the procedure for partitioning in this case for 1,3,4 as NTFS and 2nd as ext4

You could've googled this.

anyways, *docs.kali.org/category/installation

Thanks pal