access linux hard drive from windows

pcandpc · 05-13-2005, 11:29 PM

Hello?

I have a dual boot setting between Linux (FC3/SuSE 8.2 Pro)
and Windows XP Home.

I'd like to access either FC3 or SuSE 8.2 Pro's hard drive fully
from WinXP. Can someone tell me how I can do this?

Thanks.

detpenguin · 05-13-2005, 11:55 PM

it's my understanding that windows cannot see a linux partition.

Matir · 05-14-2005, 12:00 AM

There are some programs out there that give you read-only access to an ext2 partition under windows, but nothing that gives you 'full access'.

pcandpc · 05-14-2005, 12:01 AM

Hi detpenguin,

Oh, I see ... That's rather sad, is it not?

Anyway, thanks for your input.

Regards,

pcandpc · 05-14-2005, 12:04 AM

Hi Matir,

Thanks for your input as well.

I'm rather impressed how quickly I'm getting responses
in this forum. Great!

Regards,

Matir · 05-14-2005, 12:08 AM

We try to help and I wish I could tell you more... but well... windows wasn't exactly designed to be Linux friendly.

teckk · 05-14-2005, 12:32 AM

Your answer might be to make a fat32 partition for sharing files between windows and Linux since both can access fat.

tsphan · 05-14-2005, 12:36 AM

i have a reiserfs and a ntfs partition
all i do is read back and forth between them without ever needing to write anything to the other.

in my opinion, just get a program to read your linux partition

pcandpc · 05-14-2005, 01:00 AM

Hi teckk and tsphan,

Thanks for your inputs. Wonderful!

tspahn, do you know of any good "free" application
that accomplishes this task - reading fully Linux drives
from Windows?

Regards,

power_pole · 05-14-2005, 03:38 AM

google threw up these pages...

if you use ext2/3 (same on disk format)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
or for windows 9x
http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/

don't know of any other linux file systems that are supported by third party windows drivers

pcandpc · 05-14-2005, 12:20 PM

Hi power_pole,

Thanks for your search results.

Regards,

tsphan · 05-14-2005, 03:45 PM

for reiserfs, which you probably don't have, use rfsgui
http://www.wolfsheep.com/map/

for ext2, you could use explore2fs
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

it all sort of depends on what filesystem you're linux systems are running on

pcandpc · 05-14-2005, 05:41 PM

Hi tsphan,

Wonderful! Thanks again.

Regards,