Why Can Linux Read Windows Partitions but the Reverse Doesn’t Work?

If you’ve ever dual booted a system or tried to load a hard drive formatted for use by one OS into a machine running another, you may have noticed the discrepancies in compatibility. Why can Linux read Windows disks but the reverse isn’t true?

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.

by Jason Fitzpatrick via How-To Geek