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On this page • • • • • Three Ways To Access Linux Partitions (ext2/ext3) From Windows On Dual-Boot Systems Version 1.0 Author: Falko Timme If you have a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, you probably know this problem: you can access files from your Windows installation while you are in Linux, but not the other way round. This tutorial shows three ways how you can access your Linux partitions (with ext2 or ext3 filesystem) from within Windows:,, and the. While the first two provide read-only access, the Ext2 Installable File System For Windows can be used for read and write operations. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1 Explore2fs In Windows, open a browser and go to. Download the latest explore2fs zip file. And unpack it.

In the new folder, you'll find the explore2fs executable. Proteus Library Update Download. Double-click on it to start it: The Explore2fs filebrowser starts; you can now browse your Linux partitions and copy&paste files to your Windows partition: 2 DiskInternals Linux Reader Go to and download and install the DiskInternals Linux Reader. It's been bugging me for such a long time, because I made my user profile's 'Documents' point to my documents folder on my ubuntu partition.

Unfortunately all those names are in UTF-8, and Vista writes them in cp1251 (or sth like that) - essentially an iso8859-1 extension. All in all it makes have to name all my docs with standard A-Z latin characters, which blows if you're not in an English speaking country! As for EX2IFS supporting EXT3 - that is totally NOT true. The log is never touched, and therefore out of sync whenever a change happens, so each time I reboot into Linux I go through a loooong fsck. Jhene Aiko Wading Song Download more.

I tried Virtual Volumes, and indeed it does seem to work for accessing my ext3 fs with 256-byte inodes! But it does not recognize my ext4 fs.

(Which is ok for me, but I'm lucky that I didn't make my home partition ext4.) Also, VV is still in beta, so beware. There is still definitely a need out there for mature ext* fs access software that is *known* (and documented) to work for ext4, and for 256-byte-inode ext3. Whoever does this work will be benefiting a lot of people as newer versions of Linux are being installed alongside Windows.

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