On Wed 19 Sep 2018 at 19:16:29 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > What I was envisaging was a windows user closing down, booting up a > > USB stick's live Debian and corrupting their windows disk by using > > it to store ISO files. > > By what words could i warn MS-Windows users of this pitfall ? > Any proposals ?
As I'm not a Windows user¹, I'm probably not the best person to put my worries into the vocabulary that a W~ user would employ. But perhaps something along the lines of: Windows can close down leaving the disk partitions in a state that assumes they will not be modified before Windows is next rebooted. Booting a linux system and mounting those partitions (other than as readonly) could lead to disk corruption that might be difficult to recover from. You need to ensure that Windows is fully closed down before using space on its partitions for writing files. See https://www.howtogeek.com/243901/the-pros-and-cons-of-windows-10s-fast-startup-mode/ Something like that. There might be a better reference. A Windows user might know which specific buttons or commands to use to ensure the correct state is reached. ¹ I vaguely recall W95, which had none of these problems; just a load of other ones. Cheers, David.
