Comments on: Read ext3/ext4 Partition from Windows 7

By: Plop

Plop — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:38:00 +0000

Caution : useless comment

Thanks a LOT for this amazing tool! My old PC hardware crashed and it was the only solution founded with my configuration.

Thanks again folks!

By: David Lane

David Lane — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:06:00 +0000

Silent fail!

Ext2Read (ext2explore-2.2.71 – latest) on Win 7 Home Premium x64, reading EXT3 external USB drive.
Seemed to work OK, but found several issues:
- first is just a complaint about the UI. If you want to copy a whole directory, that’s fine, but if you need to copy several items you have to do each individually, wait for one to finish before you can select the next, and if you are copying folders, it forgets where you put the last one, so you have to find the destination location again.
- second is much more worrying. I came across several files which did not copy properly, and did not create an error. 1 x 2.4GB .iso, 1 x 250MB .exe, and 1 x 2MB .exe. The program reported the file size correctly, and appeared to copy fine, but the copy was too quick, and the created files were only 60KB or so. I tried several times, both with folder copy and copying the individual files, and after removing the drive several times, and got the same result. I have confirmed this is not an issue with the source – plugged the drive into ubuntu and copied the files with no problem.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:27:00 +0000

I couldn’t open files from Ext2Read, just save them. Is there a way of reading the files without making copies that I’m missing?

By: Davematel

Davematel — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:17:00 +0000

1) download

2) extract out of zip file

3) run as administrator

4) shows all ext? hard disks and when you click on one ext? hard disk it shows all the files.

By: Bill Bos

Bill Bos — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:49:00 +0000

Ext2IFS is just fs-driver. I used it on Windows 2000 for quite some time, It workd very well. It made Windows 2000 handle and display Ext 2 and Ext 3 files just like they were another NTFS file. The author did not extend the program to Windows 7. He did have an invitation on the fs-driver web site asking for someone else to do it. He said that he didn’t have the time. Apparently no programmer took him up on his offer. That is a shame, because it is a great program. His web site indicates that it is good for Vista, XP , W2k & NTFS. I highly recommend that anyone using these programs give fs-driver a try. Also if there is a good programmer out there who can update it to Windows 7, he would be doing a great service to mankind if he would do so.

Bill Bos

By: thiyagi

thiyagi — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:10:00 +0000

Nice post ..

By: Djmetelex

Djmetelex — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:42:00 +0000

Hi to Almalino and Snaipperi, the problem with heuristics is that most of virus uses command lines from other software that are used to compile tools too!! My NOD32 block updates from HP to my HP printer because a presumption of virus!! Come on, HP drivers updates with virus?? That the problem with that kind of software, an example, Blood is RED, if i use a RED T-shirt heuristic does recognize only the color and blockme because Blood is RED and i use RED for dressing! I use a lot of apps and exes that aparently contains virus, i use reverse engineering to know if they really are potentials virus and surprise they not! But not all are like that!

By: Read ext3 ext4 Partition from Windows 7 | TurboLinux Blog

Read ext3 ext4 Partition from Windows 7 | TurboLinux Blog — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:59:47 +0000

[...] Here is a good tutorial show you how to Read ext3 ext4 Partition from Windows 7: If you use Windows 7 and want to dual-boot Ubuntu (or another Linux-based operating system), you’ll want to be able to read Ubuntu files from Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. [...]

By: Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:53:00 +0000

Using Ext2explore on windows7 with Fedora 15 and it works great

By: Read ext3/ext4 Partition from Windows 7 | MyStudying

Read ext3/ext4 Partition from Windows 7 | MyStudying — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:43:20 +0000

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