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 removed 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?

  • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.worldOP
    4·
    11 months ago

    No, I’m saying I have a windows install that I then used to download 4tb worth of files, my original goal was to mount a second drive to use as the file source, but I’ve had issues in the past trying to access files from a hard drive with a windows install on it

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      31·
      11 months ago

      So, you have 6TB empty space?

      You should put in a usb flash drive, create some good partition on that 6TB and copy the files from the windows partition over there. Then delete the NTFS partition and increase the bcachefs partition.

      But warning, I have not used bcachefs. Just dont use ext4, prefer btrfs maybe