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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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