{"id":251656,"date":"2026-05-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/this-windows-feature-can-wreck-your-linux-files-and-most-dual-boot-users-miss-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:15:08","slug":"this-windows-feature-can-wreck-your-linux-files-and-most-dual-boot-users-miss-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/this-windows-feature-can-wreck-your-linux-files-and-most-dual-boot-users-miss-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This Windows feature can wreck your Linux files, and most dual-boot users miss it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/windows-feature-wreck-linux-files-dual-boot-users-miss\/\">This Windows feature can wreck your Linux files, and most dual-boot users miss it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/windows-feature-wreck-linux-files-dual-boot-users-miss\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/windows-feature-wreck-linux-files-dual-boot-users-miss\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dual-booting Linux is easier than you think, and comes with performance benefits virtual machines can&#8217;t match. However, Linux and Windows treat storage partitions differently, which can lead to problems.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, a feature built into Windows can mess up your Linux files. And if you&#8217;re not careful, it can lead to anything from a couple of lost files to entire directories being corrupted.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tKDE Plasma is the Linux desktop I recommend to Windows users, but only after these tweaks<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Better customization and saner defaults.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fast-startup-isn-rsquo-t-really-shutting-windows-down\">\n                        Fast Startup isn\u2019t really shutting Windows down<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"hybrid-hibernation-keeps-parts-of-your-system-session-alive\">\n            Hybrid hibernation keeps parts of your system session alive<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                       &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/windows-feature-wreck-linux-files-dual-boot-users-miss\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Windows feature can wreck your Linux files, and most dual-boot users miss it https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/windows-feature-wreck-linux-files-dual-boot-users-miss\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/04\/neoftech-on-wsl2-on-a-windows-11-laptop.JPG?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-251656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251658,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251656\/revisions\/251658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}