Greg Freemyer a écrit :
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:41:50 -0900, Greg Wallace
wrote: 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
I have the same task as you this morning, getting a ext2 FS to be usable from windows. In my case I need full functionallity. ie. I need 250GB partitiona support, a drive letter assigned, then I need to be able to use normal windows software.
I found ext2fsd (like you did?), but the "alpha" quality rating is pushing me away. The good news is that a release was made in the last couple of weeks, but it looks like a pretty significant bug that was just fixed.
bug fixes are listed at http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm#ext2fsd
There is also ext2ifs which considers itself beta software under Win2K, but is read-only
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm
I also found a commercial product for $30 which one hopes is production quality.
http://www.ext2fs-anywhere.com/index.htm
It appears to be from a German software company (Paragon Software Group).
Does anyone have anything good or bad to say about Paragon?
Thanks Greg
I use ext2fs-anywhere in order to read and write to ext2 or ext3 partitions. It is OK with small (a few GB) partitions, but I got difficulties with 250GB partition so that I came back to NTFS. I write to NTFS under linux by using vmware and mounting a smbfs share. It works fine but it is rather expensive even with an education license. Writing to ext2fs with Paragon give you up to 60% of non contiguous files and you get warnings with the trash under windows XP but it works. Michel.