Timeline for How to read ext4 partitions on Windows?
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| Jul 27, 2021 at 6:10 | comment | added | Moilleadóir | Absolutely works for me on an up-to-date Windows 10. | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 18:22 | comment | added | Synetech |
I'm sure it's actually broken because companies just love to break things and make unwanted changes, but as an easy diagnostic step, are you sure the service is running? Press [F7] to check and start it if it's not.
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| May 14, 2021 at 15:34 | history | edited | ﾤ ﾡ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 3:55 | comment | added | shevy | Yeah, I suspect something changed. ext2fsd used to work; it still works on my win10 laptop but not on a win10 pro installation on an older computer (desktop). I have not yet figured out the cause but I believe there is some reason since I had the exact same problem (it wants to format it always, whereas on my laptop it just works fine as-is). | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 15:55 | comment | added | mfg | Can confirm, doesn't seem to work anymore on Windows 10, 1909. | |
| Jan 12, 2020 at 3:05 | comment | added | NYCeyes |
As of Windows 10 version 1909, this doesn't appear to work. After I mount a ext4 partition and is assigned a drive letter, double-clicking the drive says that I have to Format it first (which, of course, I don't want to do). :(
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| Oct 2, 2018 at 2:44 | comment | added | will | Attempted an Install with latest Windows 10 -- Complained that couldn't install "unsigned drivers" and I could not open my Ext4 partition on a usb and was unable to mount it. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 3:39 | comment | added | FizxMike | Um... can't "eject" removable (USB) drive? Really!!?? Or am I just missing something? | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 15:36 | comment | added | shevy | I have been using it as well. It is not the prettiest but it works and solves the issue at hand (I use linux as main OS since a long time, so transferring data to a windows machine is a secondary concern to me; but when I needed to, ext2fsd worked very well). | |
| Mar 18, 2017 at 19:10 | comment | added | Kenny Dewhirst | This was my preferred way to access my EXT partitions from Windows, but something has changed in Windows 10 and it no longer works. I haven't seen a response from the project maintainers and none of the workarounds suggested online have helped, which is what brought me to this question, to try to find an alternative. | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 0:45 | comment | added | Aaron Franke | This program doesn't work on Windows 10 Version 1607 | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 23:13 | comment | added | smac89 | Yea this works on Windows 10. I especially love the fact that I can still access those partitions from explorer rather than having to go through another application to gain access to them. I would recommend not enabling writing to the linux partition just because...windows does not always communicate well with other tools that are not built using C#/.Net. I will also recommend that you rename them from explorer so that you know what names you have given each | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 4:05 | comment | added | Camilo Martin | WARNING! Some comments on the SourceForge page are really worrying. Since I can't permalink, go here and Ctrl+F "milmihalo333" and "markusdem". | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 17:13 | comment | added | loved.by.Jesus | Tried on Windows 10: Easy to install (avoiding the hindrances-warnings of windows). I could easily mount ext3 and ext4 partitions of Ubuntu 14.04 to both read and write. Just smooth. Great job. | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 14:36 | comment | added | user162573 | @ndemu: yes; I was referring to the common options from the context menu of Windows Explorer (what I didn't see missing was what I feared will be missing). | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 14:09 | history | edited | ndemou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 5, 2016 at 14:07 | comment | added | ndemou | Maybe having more than 3 words in bold should raise a warning when posting comments... | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 14:04 | comment | added | ndemou | @cipricus From the projects web page: Unsupported Ext3/4 features: 1) journal: log-based operations, external journal 2) EA (extended attributes), ACL support | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 20:17 | comment | added | user162573 | In Windows 7: I see no features missing in ext4. All options available in the Windows Explorer. -- what ext4 capabilities are you referring to? | |
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| Sep 18, 2015 at 7:05 | comment | added | aloplop85 | In Windows XP, using Ext2FSD, ETX4 file systems appear as RAW and it is not possible to access them :( | |
| Aug 4, 2014 at 17:49 | comment | added | idbrii | I just tried the Ext2Fsd 0.52 release on Win8.1 and it was easy to setup (run installer with default options), I can read my files with Windows Explorer and other existing applications (no special app required), and it reads my external USB disk (that has ext4 and NTFS). I am using it for read-only use (there's an option in the installer to enable writing and force writing). | |
| Aug 4, 2014 at 17:28 | comment | added | idbrii |
Some updates in Ext2Fsd 0.52 (May 2014). @alex's link refers to inode limits, changelog says "flexible inode size: > 128 bytes, up to block size." @harrymc mentioned extent is unsupported, changelog says "extent: reading, writing with no extending."
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| May 24, 2013 at 16:41 | comment | added | Samir | See my comment on Ext2Read. This doesn't support removable devices either. It's either that or it doesn't support Ext4. I've used this in the past on Windows XP and on Windows Vista and it worked on internal HDDs. But now, still on Vista, it refuses to assign a drive letter and mount even my internal HDD with Ubuntu. It's the same with my SD card with Ext4 on it. | |
| Nov 15, 2009 at 8:37 | comment | added | harrymc | It apparently works if the ext4 was created without the extent option. See soluvas.com/… | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 6:15 | comment | added | alex | I wanted to recommend the same app, but I was put off by the comments. If it worked for you, edit your response to let the OP know it works. Positive feedback on an app is important. | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 5:07 | comment | added | caliban | @alex : could be wrong on the drive format though on second thoughts, will double-check and update. | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 5:03 | comment | added | caliban | @alex : Just only 3 weeks back I was forced to mount an ext4 disk for recovery. EXT2FSD actually read it (didn't test write, because I only wanted to recover certain data)... | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 4:42 | comment | added | alex | It doesn't, only theoretically; check out this comment: linuxjournal.com/article/9449#comment-337357 | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 4:37 | history | answered | caliban | CC BY-SA 2.5 |