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I installed Windows 8 and Linux dual boot on UEFI system. Windows 8 recognizes Linux (btrfs) partitions as unformatted D: and E: and offers to format them when I accidentally click on them. I'm used to that Windows doesn't see Linux partitions, at all.

Windows 8 doesn't recognize Linux ext4 pattitions on my laptop with (MSDOS table and MBR boot mode). Is it the partition table or the boot mode or why is that happenig?

Yaroslav Mytkalyk
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That's normal. Windows does not recognize any other OSes' partition type. So it will consider that as a raw unformatted volume. Just ignore the offer, and don't double click on that partition. Or you could run diskmgmt.msc and remove the partition's drive letter

phuclv
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