My laptop which has ubuntu installed has the motherboard blown. If I use my hard drive as an external on another windows computer, would I still access my files?
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You can but it's risky.
There are drivers for Windows to access ext partitions such as ext4. However, many experienced folks (including yr. humbl. correspondent) report losing lots of data when writing into ext4 partitions from Windows, even with the latest version of the driver.
It is infinitely preferable to boot from an Ubuntu Linux LiveUSB and perform the file transfer under Linux into another HDD or SSD (normally made with NTFS by Windows), or to a USB flash memory drive which is traditionally partitioned as FAT32.
