Comments on: Tools to access Linux Partitions from Windows

By: SsapS

SsapS — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:33:16 +0000

Saved my life, thank you.

By: MS-point-n-click-therealthing

MS-point-n-click-therealthing — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:50:43 +0000

I use Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as a main diagnostics system to test hardware. As for hard drives in particular, I use a couple methods to test and view them, either by USB adapters, or directly, by sata or ide controllers. I hate not even seeing the drive then having to hop over to a linux system and test it there etc.

Since I am tired of installing and uninstalling junk that doesn’t do what is claimed, and as I found so far, NOBODY has mentioned anything on this software about what I would need it for.

I know I am not alone on this issue.

I am curious if E2fs, DiskInternals, or VV or some other program will be an automatic read for ALL Linux and Unix and OS drives to be viewed, scanned, and tested from one Windows PC never requiring to launch an additional program other than Windows Explorer?

MS Winows is the ultimate Point-N-Click Operating Sytem, with by far the largest number of programs and utilities available that actually work, BUT, it’s headed downhill fast.

A Side Note on that, is the upcoming Win8, which will be a CLOUD BASED OS, won’t that be nice???? That will fully and COMPLETELY ELIMINATE any need for some dam DICTATOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY NEED TO GET SEARCH WARRANTS.

SAY GOOD BYE TO YOUR RIGHTS TO PRIVACY !!!

Windows 7, the LAST personal version…

Windows XP, the last efficient version…

Windows Vista, the first big mistake…

Windows 8, THE END… ANY PC KNOWS YOU TOO!!!
That means everything about you!

The Mystical Babylon is HERE…

The Internet!

By: ...land of the Dot

...land of the Dot — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:20:16 +0000

To install Ext2IFS in Windows 7, right click on installer “Ext2IDS_1_11a.exe” wateva then -> Conpatibility -> Run this program in compatibility mode for: Windows XP (Service Pack 3) -> OK. Run again and bung…works fine*

*With Ext2/3 and Windows 7 x86/x64…not sure about Ext4 (so for you FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU)

By: rocketero

rocketero — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:21:03 +0000

Same here, NONE of the alternatives here work on Windows 7 (64bit in my case).

So No Soup for us for now.

Anyone has an alternative please let us know ASAP

By: Giles

Giles — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:33:59 +0000

I would like to be able to install on Windows 7 also, but am prevented by the installer.

By: compunuts

compunuts — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:22:23 +0000

Are you talking about EXT2IFS from here? ( http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html ). I have Ubuntu 10.04 with EXT4 and Win 7 . It can’t be installed on Win 7 ( so says the installer ). How do you get it installed on Win 7 ? Where did you download the working version?

TIA

By: Menas

Menas — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:11:35 +0000

after tryin all the options aforementioned, I have to say EXT2fsd is the best program for accessing the ubuntu 9.04 partition on a windows 7 64 bit machine. Thanks, whoever mentioned it.

By: Tim M Beckwith

Tim M Beckwith — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:20:58 +0000

None of the products discussed here support either Windows 7 or ext4, both of which I use and which are becoming more in demand (ext4 used by Ubuntu 9.10 and the upcoming 10.04). Don’t any of the firms firms producing these products believe in keeping themselves current?

By: alex

alex — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:20:12 +0000

As far as I know, Ubuntu 9.10 uses ext4 by default. That’s why it might not be accessed from Windows.
A year ago I used a program with ‘ext2′ in its name (don’t remember). It claimed to support ext2, but also worked fine with ext3.
So you may want to reinstall Ubuntu (yes, Windows way) using ext3.

By: satyadeep

satyadeep — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:34:14 +0000

i have ubuntu 9.10 installed in windows
these are not working
is ther any other way?

By: Nightrain

Nightrain — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:09:45 +0000

Having Windoze 7 related issues as well. These solutions do not seem to be compatible as 7 apparently can’t access ext filesystems. This is discussed here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1069608.html

Leave it to M$ to make dual booting a major chore.

By: karthik

karthik — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:14:05 +0000

i want to access my ubuntu 9.10 files from windows 7.. help pls??

By: karthik

karthik — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:13:39 +0000

Guys ,Need help .My system is on Dual OS with Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows 7.Though I am able to access windows files from Ubuntu but unable to access files of Ubuntu from Windows 7.
Any Suggestion is appreciated ..

By: karlzt

karlzt — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:45:56 +0000

i can access 8.04 but no 8.10

why is that?

By: karlzt

karlzt — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:21:46 +0000

By: karlzt

karlzt — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:21:05 +0000

i triple boot: 2 ubuntus and xp

i can access 1 ubuntu but no the other

By: skoolfobia

skoolfobia — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:32:36 +0000

YAReG is a GUI for rfstool. Very nice!

http://yareg.akucom.de

By: K.Mohamed Meinudeen

K.Mohamed Meinudeen — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:01:19 +0000

i am using linux and windows dual os. as i need to access the windows files in linux gui is there any software for this issue. i using ubuntu 710. i need a software to install in linux.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:19:28 +0000

I need to repair an ext3 filesytem, preferably under windows as I know nothing about linux, but have a corrupted filesystem on the storage partition that I need to repair (I don’t care if the files are kept or not but the PVR it’s from needs to know that the space is free, NOT full as it keeps claiming). The MBR, system and swap partitions are fine.
What do I do? Can I run chkdsk on it if it’s mounted natively with ‘Ext2 Installable File System for Windows’? Are there any other tools that can repair the files and mark bad sectors as not for use so they can be ignored and the other ones used (temporarily). I will then clone the drive to another non-failing one and repair the storage partition again somehow so it uses all the sectors on the non-faulty disk. It seems like a major mission, but it would be nice to resurrect this PVR, it was costly! There’s no guides on the net as it’s not a popular one, and is hard-drive dependent, not ROM-dependent for the system.
I’ve tried mounting them with the above drivers in read-only mode, the drives and files can be seen OK (storage space partition reports nothing in it).
Any help appreciated, I’ve done a fair few hours’ research on this so far already and no answers save going into Linux from a live CD and using the FSCK command. I’m not comfortable with this right now, although I’m going to learn Linux as it’s a good idea. I’d rather be recording TV whilst I take the hours and hours to learn it though!

By: Ethald

Ethald — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:57:09 +0000

Thanks! I’ve been looking for something to access my linux partition from windows