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If I install Ubuntu on a new hard drive will it be able to access data on the old hard drive and will the OS installed on the old hard drive (XP SP2) be able to access and store data on the new hard drive?

Asked by Blaise

I have a small hard drive and thought this would be better than partitioning it, let me know if that would be easier.

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Best Mathias Uebelacker (muebelacker) said : 		#1

Hello Blaise,

yes its possible. You need to install Samba. I do not hae the official URL right now but here is a other howto:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Samba_Server
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Mathias Uebelacker (muebelacker) said : 		#2

Hello Blaise i forgott the second part of your question.

Both systems on one hd works. You can take files from your windows partition an use these files on ubuntu but if you want both ways read and write you need Samba.

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Blaise (nuclear2011) said : 		#3

Thanks Mathias Uebelacker, that solved my question.

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Blaise (nuclear2011) said : 		#4

P.S. here is the list of mirrors with links to the download
http://us3.samba.org/samba/download/ftp_mirrors.html

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Blaise (nuclear2011) said : 		#5

P.P.S. Thanks for answering so quickly.

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Mathias Uebelacker (muebelacker) said : 		#6

your welcome
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Mathias
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 22:24 +0000, Blaise wrote:
> Question #9749 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/9749
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> Blaise posted a new comment:
> P.P.S. Thanks for answering so quickly.
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