How To Access Linux Partition In Windows

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If you are using your computer as a Dual boot system running Linux andWindows simultaneously then you may have experienced about this problem. If Linux is Installed on Secondary partition then you might experienced the Windows partition in that but this is not a case for windows. If we try to look a Linux partition from Windows then it won’t show you. The very basic reason behind this is that Windows Operating System works only on their Specialized file System where is in case of Linux they have modular File system that adapt any environment. Apart from the development talk let’s come to our point that how to access those partition in windows Operating system.
Many times we might need to access files stored in Linux partitions and we realize that we can’t access them from Windows. In this situation we have to reboot our system in Linux to access those files. it would be nice if we can access them from Windows. Here is some Tools which enable you to do this.

Ext2Read:

Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports LVM2 and EXT4 extents. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file.
Ext2Read Software to view Linux partition in Windows

Features of Ext2Read:

  • Simple UI designed using QT4.
  • View/Read Ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
  • Linux LVM2 Support.
  • Ext4 Large File support (untested).
  • Recursively Copy the entire folder.
  • Support for external USB disks.
  • Support for disk and filesystem  images. For eg. Wubi users can just open their root.disk file through this program.
  • LRU based Block cache for faster access.
  • Unicode support. 

How to use Ext2Read:

  • Download the Ext2Read and Run it, it won’t need any installation.
  • Once the Application is running just Click on “Rescan System” and after a moment it will show a Ext2 [Linux Drive] on your system.
rescan file system
  • Do various File operations like copy, paste and edit files to your Ext2 Drive.
This is all about How to Access Linux Partition in Windows operating system. If you feel any problem doing this then let me know via comments. Good luck.

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