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Re: Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as "(Unknown partition)"?


Larry Hall wrote:

> No.  You need software that knows the filesystem first.  You can check out
> Paragon if you're looking for commercial support.  There is an older
> free S/W driver for ext2 and NT but I haven't tried it since NT 4 and I
> can't recommend it.  If you're just looking to get read access (and/or
> very touchy write access) and don't mind the slowness of a user-land
> utility, check out Explore2fs
> <http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm>. I don't know if
> it works with FireWire but it does work fine with local ext3 partitions.

There's also http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/ implementing a WIndows driver
for ext3 - never tried it though.

- Jörg


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