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I have a dual-boot Android/Windows mini PC.

How can I make I use the Android partitions for Windows, without breaking the Android to much?

(I have external disks, but there are some things like SWAP that cant be external, also Windows update etc often need some space) enter image description here

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  • As they're using different file systems you probably won't be able to do much. You might be able to find a Ext3 driver for Windows, at least for Ext2 there was one available.
    – Seth
    Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 10:34
  • I imagine I could format them, if I was sure I could reverse it.
    – Olav
    Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 14:09

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The Android phone I have at hand uses ext4fs for most of its partitions, so an ext4fs driver for Windows might do the trick. There are drivers for this, but I haven't used any of them in over a decade (since before ext4fs was released, in fact). Ones I found when Googling are:

The last two of these probably wouldn't suit your needs, since they're read-only. As I said, I've not used any of these recently, so I can't comment on how good they are. There might be others that my initial Google search didn't reveal.

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  • If I can read the disks, and verify that there is nothing critical, I could "Downgrade" to Fat*, and it might even work for Android.
    – Olav
    Commented Jun 11, 2017 at 13:25
  • As we can see there are only 2 partitions with a bit of space, so I think I should either keep partitions and look at those, or find a way to backup and restore several partitions in one go.
    – Olav
    Commented Jun 11, 2017 at 13:26
  • Do not try to convert an ext4fs partition to FAT on an Android device! If Android has set up a partition as ext4fs, chances are it needs features present in ext4fs that aren't provided by FAT, such as Unix-style ownership and permissions. There may well be exceptions to this rule, but unless you have a very deep understanding of Android, you're more likely to create problems than solve them by changing the filesystem used on a partition.
    – Rod Smith
    Commented Jun 11, 2017 at 14:48

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