Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as "(Unknown partition)"?
Jörg Schaible
joerg.schaible@gmx.de
Tue May 3 21:36:00 GMT 2005
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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