Mounting NTFS partitions in Linux is fairly simple. You will need to download and install the appropriate NTFS driver for your distribution. I would suggest (at the time of writing this) NTFS-3G...
Partitions are not "in" Linux. They are divisions on a hard drive. There can be any number of partitions on a hard drive, depending on the architecture in question.
When you run out of memory, some of the data is stored in SWAP, so memory can be used for something else. Also, some files might be saved to swap, so it takes less time to find and read them.And when...