viewing ext4 drive from windows

[daniel49]

I have heard that Ext2fsd may work somewhat for this. has anyone here tried it, and what were your results? thx in advance.

 

[RMSe17]

I have heard that Ext2fsd may work somewhat for this. has anyone here tried it, and what were your results? thx in advance.

From what I understand, it does not work with the default ext4 partition. You have to disable Extent while making ext4 partition for Ext2fsd to work.

Here is a thread regarding the ext4 reading from Windows:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1145598

There are various options listed, most promising seems to be the use of VirtualBox to either Install Linux on a VM, and use a shared folder, or to maybe use VirtualBox to create a virtual drive container that maps to a physical partition.

RMSe17