Tools to access Linux Partitions from Windows -- Ubuntu Geek

Tools to access Linux Partitions from Windows

Posted by admin on April 11th, 2008 Email This Post

If you dual boot with Windows and Linux, and have data spread across different partitions on Linux and Windows, you should be really in for some issues.

It happens sometimes you need to access your files on Linux partitions from Windows, and you realize it isn’t possible easily. Not really, with these tools in hand - it’s very easy for you to access files on your Linux partitions from Windows

Explore2fs

Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.

Project Home Page :- http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs

Latest Version :- 1.07

Sample Screenshot

DiskInternals Linux Reader

DiskInternals Linux Reader is a new easy way to do this. This program plays the role of a bridge between your Windows and Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems. This easy-to-use tool runs under Windows and allows you to browse Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems and extract files from there.

Project Home Page :- http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

Latest Version :- 1.0

Sample Screenshot

Ext2 Installable File System for Windows

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

Project Home Page :- http://www.fs-driver.org/

Latest Version :- 1.10c

Sample Screenshot

rfsd: ReiserDriver

ReiserDriver is an Installable File System Driver (IFSD), used to easily (and natively!) read ReiserFS disk partitions under Microsoft Windows (2K/XP) by allowing ReiserFS partitions to appear as additional disks to the Windows operating system.

Project Home Page :- http://sourceforge.net/projects/rfsd/

Latest Version :- 1

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9 Responses to “Tools to access Linux Partitions from Windows”

dorofeevilya Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Ext2 IFS for Windows does not work properly with directory and file names encoded using UTF-8 so cyrillic file names seems to be very odd in Windows Explorer.
Robert Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Is it possible to reach your MacOS files too? its the same filesystem isn’t it?
Randy Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
@Robert

No. MacOS uses HFS+ not Ext2/3.
jj Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 1:38 am
You may want to reiterate that the programs above “access files” in “read-only” mode and does not allow you to write from Windows to the Linux Ext2/Ext3 file system partitions.
Ash Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Is there anything that can access LVM?
rogun Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 4:03 am
@Jj

Did you miss the link for the “Ext2 Installable File System for Windows”? It clearly states that it provides “Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access).” I use this to write to my ext3 filesystem and have yet to run into any serious problems. However, I don’t spend much time in Windows, and so I haven’t really used it enough to recommend it as safe.
Den Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 9:24 am
You forgot this one ext2fsd.sourceforge.net
Shark Tek Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 11:19 am
You also forgot a tool for ReiserFS.

Is called
Ethald Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Thanks! I’ve been looking for something to access my linux partition from windows