# Start PMS at boot with QSV hardware transcoding **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-windows\ **Created:** [March 8, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/start-pms-at-boot-with-qsv-hardware-transcoding/779794 "2022-03-08T15:26:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/start-pms-at-boot-with-qsv-hardware-transcoding/779794/8 "2022-03-09T10:48:32Z")
Merely _reading_ NTFS partitions in Linux shouldn’t be a big issue nowadays. > [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/2): > > Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed … Going Linux will certainly avoid the whole user login issue, since (contrary to Windows) the architecture of Linux doesn’t prevent access to the GPU for services/daemons. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/start-pms-at-boot-with-qsv-hardware-transcoding/779794)._