Comments on: Read ext3/ext4 Partition from Windows 7

By: Zeeku

Zeeku — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:28:58 +0000

Thanks so much for this resource, a true life saver indeed. I'm not not using windows 7, rather use windows xp every now and then just so I still know how to use windows... So I'm surprised that this tool worked for me.

I had months and months worth of my business data and information on my ubuntu 9.10 partition so you can imagine the panic that set in when it crashed and would not load.

I was about to see months of hard work go up in smoke. Work that I foolishly had not backed up and could definitely not reproduce.

I was able to back up my entire ubuntu partition. I'm just counting my lucky blessings.

Thanks once again for this tool.

By: Hendy Irawan

Hendy Irawan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:51:04 +0000

UPDATE: Newest version of Ext2Read open source software can read normal Ext4 filesystems from Windows, even with 'extents' feature bit enabled! Please share your experience with this software in the comments.

By: Michal Palma

Michal Palma — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:56:04 +0000

I used to tryed it on win7, but it did not worked. Thats why im back on XP and everythings working fine with write option too.
Be carefull on win7 with write access option, i destroyed whole partition there with it!!!

By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:11:10 +0000

This was a READ only solution. No formatting. Why on earth would you want to format? (You've got Windows Formatting Tools for that)

By: Shahab371

Shahab371 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:45:20 +0000

it doesnt work, I have windows 7 and the only thing I get , are empty folders. It is probably because it tries to read my EXT4 filesystems as EXT3 !!

By: Deft

Deft — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:54:25 +0000

Nabis Descarguen este programa
DiskInternals Linux Reader 1.1
Freeware Linux Ext2/Ext3 Reader for Windows! 0.7 Mb

http://www.diskinternals.com/download/Linux_Rea...

Cabe mencionar ke ademas de ver puenden hacer imagen del disko funciona para windows 7 32bits (teoricamente los sistemas 64bits manejan la mayoria de las aplicaciones 32bits)

Salu2…

By: Αnilikos

Αnilikos — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:36:08 +0000

having the same problem probably for the extent feature enabled

till now can't disable it and not intending to format again my /home

By: Joecool

Joecool — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:53:38 +0000

Just a user-space file/directory browser, but take a look at this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
http://ext2read.blogspot.com/

By: pROCKrammer

pROCKrammer — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:54:33 +0000

dont work for me ((

By: Maher Hawash

Maher Hawash — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:55:51 +0000

I would not touch it. I installed it on Windows 7, and once restarted, Windows could not recognize my own drives. Rebooted twice to make sure, same problem. I removed it and rebooted and back in Windows operation.

I have the latest Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 installed but did not even get far enough to try to access it.