Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <jgregw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently converted one of two partitions on a USB hard-drive I have from
NTFS to EXT2 so I could use it on my Linux machine, which means I can no
longer even browse it on my Windows XP (SP2) machine.  I'd like to have that
capability, so I did some internet searches and discovered that there is
software available that will allow you to read (and even write) to an EXT2
hard drive partition on a Windows machine.  Not sure if I'd ever need to
actually write to it from Windows, but being able to view data and maybe
pull files off of it from the Windows machine would be sort of nice.  Anyone
have any experience with any of this type of software?  I tried installing
one of them that I found that was freeware (I think it was called EXT2FS),
but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so I ended up trashing it.  Maybe
it was good software and I was just too dumb to figure out how to operate
it, but when I tried to install it, I couldn't see that anything actually
happened.  After the install, clicking on the various exe's that came with
it didn't seem to do anything either.  I would like to think there's
something out there with at least some rudimentary GUI front-end, but maybe
that's wishful thinking on my part. Worst case, if it came with at least
some rudimentary operating instructions, that would be better than nothing.
Suggestions anyone?

Thanks,
Greg Wallace