Linux Reader: Read Linux files using Windows

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Linux Reader: Read Linux files using Windows

by Brad Linder Dec 17th 2007

If you have a dual boot computer running Windows and Linux, odds are you can access your Windows files from your Linux partition. But Windows doesn't recognize most Linux file systems.

Two years ago we introduced you to Ext2 IFS for Windows, which is a driver that lets you read and write to ext2 file systems from within windows. But unless you're a Linux guru, it's probably not a great idea to go mucking around with your Linux file systems willy nilly, lest you find yourself unable to boot into Ubuntu next time you try.

Linux Reader is a Windows-Explorer like program that grants you read only access to your Linux partitions. So if you have a picture, video, OpenOffice.org document, or other file that you just want to access from Windows, Linux Reader could be the safer option.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: ext2, ext2-ifs-for-windows, file-systems, linux-reader

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

blehh said 8:45PM on 12-17-2007

just what i needed. thanks

Noah Gibeson said 3:00PM on 1-19-2008

I have a linux based server that recently burned up the power supply. Toshiba no longer makes replacement power supplies for these and they are proprietary. I need to convert the files stored on the two 2.5"hard drives to Windows based files so I can move them to a different system. That way I can use them again. I do not have a dual boot system. If I can install those drives in a Windows based computer, Will this progam workto get me access to those files and programs so I can copy or move them over?

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