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How to read ext4 partitions on Windows?
Is there a way to read ext4 partitions from Windows? If so, what can I do?
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How to mount read-write an ext4 partition on Windows? [duplicate]
I want to use ext4 on my external HDD, but it must be cross-platform. (At least Linux, Win7 & WinXP).
Unfortunately, I haven't found any proper driver allowing Windows to WRITE to ext4. I've ...
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Online, "Smart" Partition Manager with Full Ext4 Support?
Is there any partition manager for Windows that can manage (resize, move, etc.) ext4 partitions?
Caveats:
Resize must be smart when resizing from the beginning of the partition.
Many partition ...
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Windows with a better filesystem
From my observations as a Java developer working on Windows workstations, NTFS is slow compared to Linux filesystems. Question is, is there anything in the NTFS driver that can be manually tuned, for ...
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How can I get access to EXT2, EX3 and EXT4 partitions on Windows 7?
I tried all programs recommended to mount Linux partitions like EXT2 or EXT3 or even EXT4 but no one can do well on Windows 7 32 bit.
I want to access read-write, is there a program that can do this?
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How do I read the Ext4 partition of my SD card on Windows? [duplicate]
I have a 32 GB SD card with one FAT32 partition and one Ext4 partition. If I mount the SD card to the computer I can read the FAT32 partition in Windows just fine. But how do I read the Ext4 partition?...
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How do I write to a USB drive formatted as ext4 in Windows 11?
I have an SD card formatted as ext4 for use with SteamOS and EmuDeck. I want to add files to this SD card from my Windows 11 PC using a SD to USB adapter. Most of the the ext4 programs I've found ...
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Mounting external usb harddisk (ext4) in virtual box in windows
I would like to mount my external linux formatted usb harddrive in a virtual machine. The host is windows 7. Unfortunately virtual box doesn't enumerate the external harddrive in the options menu of ...
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Does an ext4 writer for Windows exist?
Are there any applications that can write to ext4 file systems from Windows?
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How do I access files inside a Wubi virtual ext4 Ubuntu partition from within Windows?
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 using Wubi on a PC that has Windows XP and Windows 7 installed. I was working in it for a while and everything is just fine.
However, when I booted back into Windows 7, ...
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How to mount LUKS/EXT4 disk in Windows 7?
I used the defaults in cryptsetup to create an encrypted disk with EXT4:
$ sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda # list property luks
LUKS header information for /dev/sda
Version: 1
Cipher name: ...
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How to recover data after "Safely remove drive" applied on ext4 drive under Windows?
The story
I have an external harddisk that has been formatted for use with Linux. Unfortunately I inserted this disk in a Windows computer. Immediately after that it became corrupted. I have used ...
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How to create a diskimage of an SD card with partitions having different filesystems?
I have a 16GB SD card with 10%FAT32 90%EXT4. I want to get a single disk image file that would contain all of the disc contents. How can I create a disk image of such a disc on Windows 10?
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Is there a way to execute software from EXT4 partitions on Windows 10?
Right, my scenario is that I have a Linux system set up and I was thinking about maybe setting up a Windows 10 dual boot, for reasons.
The problem is that I like gaming, and I have a hard drive ...
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How to make Windows read ext4, zfs, etc. linux drives?
In linux packages like ntfs-3g enable linux systems to read and write to NTFS drives. However when I connect a drive that was previously used in linux to a Windows system, Windows does not recognize ...
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Keep a WSL2-mounted ext4 drive persistent and available to Windows after closing the WSL window
The documentation to mount ext4 drive into Windows using WSL is clearly explain here (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk)
However, anytime I close my WSL2 session, I lose ...
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FORMAT ext4 filesystem from Windows
I have a hard drive previously used with a Linux system, with an ext4 filesystem. I would like now to zero out the hard drive from a Windows system.
I understand I can do this using the FORMAT command,...
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Read EXT4 GPT partition type SSD on windows [closed]
I use SharpExt4 to read and copy data from an EXT4 SSD with an MBR partition type in Windows.
Now, I have a new card with a GPT partition type, as the new memory card is 4 terabytes and not able to ...
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File deletion on NTFS vs ext4
How does deletion of files on NTFS compare to deletion on ext4 in terms of basic methodology?
This may be too broad of a question, so alternatively, I was looking at the Veracrypt docs
On Windows, ...
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Does Windows 10 now support EXT4? [closed]
I recently updated my home PC from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro via the inline update tool (update existing installation.) This went smoothly with no notable issues.
Upon completing the update I ...
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How to rename a file on an ext4 filesystem from Windows with ext4 incompatible features with ext3 enabled?
I know about doing something like mounting the disk but all those solutions works because ext2 is retro compatible with ext3 and ext4.
But that time, it won’t work : I enabled ext4 features so ...
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ext4 for data partition in Windows
I have moved my Windows user profile to a separate partition in order to share it with my linux install. I have originally tried to make a NTFS formatted data partition, but this creates some issues ...
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ext2explore for windows doesn't read ext3/4 sparse files what does?
I have some sparse files that I want to read/copy to windows but I can't find a FS reader that works any suggestions?
EDIT: to clarify the sparse files are living on an ext3 partition it's this ...
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Someone please explain how I'm writing to EXT4 from Windows 8.1
I'm dual booting Debian amd-64 Wheezy 7.5 and Windows 8.1
I have 6 drives and I am 100% positive that four of the drives are formatted Ext4 (Formatted in Linux)
How on earth is it that when I'm in ...
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Windows/Linux shared system drive storage formatting
I plan on setting up a dualboot with Windows10 and ArchLinux.
They will share a 1TB SSD and a 3 TB HDD. How should I format the partitions on the different drives?
What are the advantages of ext4 vs ...
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Is there a better way to transfer data from a non-Windows file system to Windows?
When designing our next-gen airborne LIDAR system, we intended to store our data on storage drives that were formatted with NTFS. This is the way our previous-gen systems work. Our systems run Linux ...
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Automated way to create EXT4 Partition on Windows 10
The Problem
Partitioning 32GB uSD cards with 2GB FAT32/~30GB EXT4 in a production environment (20 per day) performed by production technicians (people who need something that's simple as a single ...
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Create ext4 img in windows
I am trying to create an automated android x86 installer for my friend. I am creating img with dd. But I cant format it ro ext4. I found e2fsprog on a form but cant find a valid exucatible. How can I ...
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Excel to Ubuntu filesystem via USB or internet?
I had machines with Ubuntu hosting a VirtualBox with Windows and Excel and if I recall correctly, I had Excel access the Ubuntu file system directly (which was ext4).
Since I usually have both an ...
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Why can I play media files as they are downloading on Linux, but not Windows?
On Linux (with ext4) I can open a video file for playback as it is being downloaded via another program (my browser, wget, a torrent client with sequential downloading enabled, etc). My media player ...
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How do you make NTFS living with ext4 safe for windows to mount
Hi I want to partition a hard drive with NTFS and ext3.
I was going to partition the drive all with primary partitions (don't need 5+ parts) in windows XP then change the last partitions to 83/Linux ...
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Windows Viruses Infected ext4 drive
I have a drive thats formatted as ext4 and being used by my linux install. It recently got infected by some viruses and clamav is just pathetic as it asks to delete each file, something which i would ...
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Copying .exe files from ext4 to ntfs [closed]
maybe a silly question but..
why cant i copy an .exe file format from linux (ubuntu 14.04) to windows 8.1 without corrupts when i try to execute it?
I can copy some others file formats like images ...
