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File names that start with a dot "." character are treated as hidden.

Supports use of the Windows mountvol utility to create or delete drive letters for Ext2 volumes (except on Windows NT 4.0).

When a drive is removed, the corresponding drive letter is deleted.

Supports hash indexed (htree) directories (utilizes the so-called dir_index feature of Ext3).

Supports all operations you would expect: Reading and writing files, listing directories, creating, renaming, moving and deleting files or directories, querying and modifying the volume’s label.

You can simply download and install the drivers in Windows, restart your computer and it will start reading Linux Ubuntu Partitions in Windows Explorer.

I will review them one by one with features, merits and demerits.ĮXT2 Installable File System Windows DriversĮXT2 IFS Drivers are free for download and support reading and writing of EXT2 Partitions inside windows and are compatible with up to Windows Vista as of now. I tested four tools, two of them are Windows File System drivers to enable EXT2 / EXT3 File Read Write and other two are standalone utilities. Second type are the tools which allow to read and write EXT2 / EXT3 partitions from within windows as stand-alone explorer type utilities. First type are the File system drivers which are installed in Windows and allows it to read Linux / Ubuntu partitions just like windows partitions. There are two type of solutions to help you read EXT2 / EXT3 file system which is used by Linux / Ubuntu. These methods allow you to access, read and write files to and from EXT2 and EXT3 Partitions from inside Windows Operating System. I this article I will share some methods to read Linux partitions from Inside Windows OS.

Windows OS does not have the feature or in-built support to read Linux partitions. One advantage that Linux has is that it can read windows drive partitions as it recognizes the Windows File Systems, but vice-e-versa is not true. There problems are not because of the limitation of Linux or Windows operating system, these problems arise because Windows and Linux work on different file systems. Pen Drives Formatted On Linux As EXT Are Not Readable By Windows.Windows Does Not Read Linux / Ubuntu Drive Partitions which are EXT2 or EXT3 Partitions.There are two problems related to the Linux / Ubuntu Drive partitions :