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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 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 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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