How to transfer data easily from Windows or Mac to Linux ?

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I will tell you the available methods in order. And after the usual methods crossover cable (two computers) and FTP (computers connected to the network).

I give the example of Windows by default because it is more popular, and there is no major difference in the method of data transfer. Where there is a slight difference in the operation, it is only the difference between the two designs.

First, go to Disk Management and check the status of your drive.

1. => Double operating system

Suppose you have a Windows machine running Windows 10. It has a 1TB GPT format hard drive with 4 partitions.

C:> WIN10 (System Partition) - 100GB - NTFS

D:> Workshop (working data) - 200GB - NTFS

E:> MEDIA (movies and songs) - 460GB - NTFS

F:> VAULT (software and others) - 200GB-Nutfs

If you have to put Linux in this system then you do not need to do anything of the data because even if the partition in which you want to install Linux will be formatted to Ext4, but from Linux operating system you can open all NTFS partitions of your disk. , Read, and do all the operations you do with Windows (or Mac) on all the files kept in them.

2. => Data available in D: E: F:

The most common method is -

There is hardly anything better than a USB3 or USB3.1 portable hard disk for this purpose. If you buy then having a hard disk of 1TB or 2TB is a good solution.

Otherwise you can use a pen drive of 64GB or more, but in it, again and again, you will have a long way to extract 700GB of data many times.

Or you can do this by creating an FTP server so that your WiFi can create a wireless network between your two laptops from which you can transfer data. (Know that further)

3. => Windows User Folder

The data in your Windows or Mac is in My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Videos, etc. You will find all that in your User Folder.

You can cut all this from there and paste it into a drive and then use it as the rest of the data.

4. => other data in the system drive

You will only know if you have put any data in C Drive which is not in the User Folder of the system. He will have to pick you up and put himself in another drive.

5. => To do this through Crossover Cable, see Jay Yawda Ji's answer where he has explained it in the clearest way.

Now let me tell you about FTP which makes a network of all the computers not just one place but you have to connect with one data.

6. => FTP network

The FTP server ie File Transfer Protocol server is similar to what you would find in most offices. In this, you can use all the folders from one computer to another which are put on the server, that is, the server has been allowed to use them.

By installing such a server, you can copy all of your Windows folders to Linux through the server. The speed of this data copy will depend on your router which is 150Mb / s to 300Mb / s in a normal router and it will give you a USB 3.1 that is 70–80 Mb / s speed and it will be copied the data once and then paste the second time. Time will be wasted twice as long as it takes more than half the time

So download and install Filezilla, this is the FOSS ie Free and Open Source tool to install your server.

Leave the standard port and settings in it.

Now you have to go to No-Ip and do a user registration and get a Host address and if your IP is a Dynamic Ip (mostly PPPOP) then you have to install Dynamic Update Client and keep it running.

Put your server here -

Now go to Edit> Groups> Add Group to create a new group

Create a User from Edit> Users> Add

Now go to account settings and choose your user name and enter a password

Just restart the computer once, make sure that both computers are on the same WiFi and you go to your Linux network and you will see your host in the Windows network.

Click it, enter the password and open the folder and copy your data.