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05-13-2005, 10:29 PM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 241
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access linux hard drive from windows
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.
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05-13-2005, 10:55 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: lost in the midwest...
Distribution: Slackware
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it's my understanding that windows cannot see a linux partition.
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05-13-2005, 11:00 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: San Jose, CA
Distribution: Debian, Arch
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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'.
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05-13-2005, 11:01 PM
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Hi detpenguin,
Oh, I see ... That's rather sad, is it not?
Anyway, thanks for your input.
Regards,
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05-13-2005, 11:04 PM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 241
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Hi Matir,
Thanks for your input as well.
I'm rather impressed how quickly I'm getting responses
in this forum. Great!
Regards,
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05-13-2005, 11:08 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: San Jose, CA
Distribution: Debian, Arch
Posts: 8,507
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We try to help and I wish I could tell you more... but well... windows wasn't exactly designed to be Linux friendly. 
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05-13-2005, 11:32 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 5,489
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Your answer might be to make a fat32 partition for sharing files between windows and Linux since both can access fat.
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05-13-2005, 11:36 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Clackamas, Oregon, US
Distribution: Slackware 10.2
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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
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05-14-2005, 12:00 AM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 241
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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,
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05-14-2005, 02:38 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2004
Location: Australia, QLD
Distribution: Redhat, Fedora, Debian, Windoze 2K, any other distro I get my hands on :)
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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
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05-14-2005, 11:20 AM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 241
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Hi power_pole,
Thanks for your search results.
Regards,
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05-14-2005, 04:41 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 241
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Hi tsphan,
Wonderful! Thanks again.
Regards,
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