Warlord wrote:

Linux like later versions of windows installs a boot loader or recovery partition to a hidden partition on a HDD.

No. It installs a boot stub in the MBR which then searches an assigned partition for the configuration file and any additional modules. There is no hidden partition. Grub does understand NTFS, but I have generally only tested it being hosted on my Linux partition. Certainly it does work with FAT/FAT32, EXT3/4, XFS, etc.