Hi,
I have been given a laptop, it is mine to keep. I wanted to reinstall the operating system and I noticed a Linux partition on the hard drive.
I booted from a live cd to check it out and the partition has personal documents/files and was clearly used as a main operating system.
I would rather keep this partition intact (in case the previous owner needs the files) but I am concerned that there may be malware or a virus stored on this partition that can infect my clean windows system. I have not looked at the files but still do not want to tell the owner I found their hidden partition just because it could be awkward.
Is it remotely possible something stored on the Linux partition could interfere with the windows system I will be using daily?
I have been given a laptop, it is mine to keep. I wanted to reinstall the operating system and I noticed a Linux partition on the hard drive.
I booted from a live cd to check it out and the partition has personal documents/files and was clearly used as a main operating system.
I would rather keep this partition intact (in case the previous owner needs the files) but I am concerned that there may be malware or a virus stored on this partition that can infect my clean windows system. I have not looked at the files but still do not want to tell the owner I found their hidden partition just because it could be awkward.
Is it remotely possible something stored on the Linux partition could interfere with the windows system I will be using daily?
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