How To Read And Write to An EXT3 filesystem In Windows

Linux ext3 volumes Cannot be accessed by default in windows.Windows does not support ext3.. So incase you dual boot windows and linux, and you have a ext3 filesystem.Then you may have problems reading your linux ext3 filesystem from windows.There is a small tool available on the internet called fs-driver which allows you to read and write files to an ext3 filesystem from windows.Apart from that it has loads of other features.Some of which are : -

• Supports Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista [new].
• Supports both the 32 bit x86 and the 64 bit x64 platform [new].
• Includes drivers with a digital signature for Windows Vista x64 [new].
• All operations you would expect: Reading and writing files, listing directories, creating, renaming, moving and deleting files or directories, querying and modifying the volume's label.
• UTF-8 encoding [new].
• Files larger than 2 GBytes.
• Supports hash indexed (htree) directories (utilizes the so-called dir_index feature of Ext3) [new].
• Full plug-n-play functionality. When a drive is removed, the corresponding drive letter is deleted [new].
• Supports use of the Windows mountvol utility to create or delete drive letters for Ext2 volumes [new] (except on Windows NT 4.0). This is useful for scripts. (
• A global read-only option is provided [new].
• File names that start with a dot "." character are treated as hidden [new].
• Supports GPT disks if the Windows version used also does [new].
• Paging files are supported. (A paging file is a file "pagefile.sys", which Windows swaps virtual memory to.) Users may create paging files at NT's control panel at Ext2 volumes.
• Specific functions of the I/O subsystem of NT: Byte range locks, notification of changes of directories, oplocks (which are required by the NT LAN manager for sharing files via SMB).

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