Multiple operating systems are common on today’s computer, if all the operating systems are from windows family it is not a problem to access or edit the files of one operating system to other. The problem arises when one operating system is LINUX which has EXT2 file system and other windows which has NTFS/FAT file system.
TechFlag has a free utility which can help you to access EXT2 Linux File System in Windows. It helps to gain full access to Linux Ext2 volumes from Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Features of “Ext2 Installable File System”:
(As claimed by its developers)
1) Supports Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista.
2) Supports both the 32 bit x86 and the 64 bit x64 platform.
3) Includes drivers with a digital signature for Windows Vista x64.
4) All operations you would expect: Reading and writing files, listing directories, creating, renaming, moving and deleting files or directories, querying and modifying the volume’s label.
5) UTF-8 encoding.
6) Files larger than 2 GBytes. (Please read the FAQ section, too.)
7) Supports hash indexed (htree) directories (utilizes the so-called dir_index feature of Ext3).
Full plug-n-play functionality. When a drive is removed, the corresponding drive letter is deleted.
9) Supports use of the Windows mountvol utility to create or delete drive letters for Ext2 volumes (except on Windows NT 4.0). This is useful for scripts. (Please read the FAQ section, too.)
10) A global read-only option is provided.
11) File names that start with a dot “.” character is treated as hidden.
12) Supports GPT disks if the Windows version used also does.
13) Paging files are supported. (A paging file is a file “pagefile.sys”, which Windows swaps virtual memory to.) Users may create paging files at NT’s control panel at Ext2 volumes.
14) Specific functions of the I/O subsystem of NT: Byte range locks, notification of changes of directories, oplocks (which are required by the NT LAN manager for sharing files via SMB).
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