IceGuru Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Ok so I have windows 7 on a 1 trb main hard drive and I installed ubuntu on my 250 GB harddrive and now I can't read the ext3 hard drive from windows ... can someone help before I install more linux distros on the 250? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sl45h3R Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 You won't be able to mount it in windows, you might be able to find a commercial program that can though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inked Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Ice, why not run your linux distro in a VM on windows 7? Or just dual boot it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Hi IceGuru, I think I might have found you some tools that will do what you are asking for. http://www.fs-driver.org/ http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-par...ns-from-windows http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tools-to-access-...om-windows.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inked Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Hi IceGuru, I think I might have found you some tools that will do what you are asking for. http://www.fs-driver.org/ http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-par...ns-from-windows http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tools-to-access-...om-windows.html I looked at the tools you suggested and realized I misunderstood the question. Great looking tools though, I bookmarked them and filed them away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 (edited) I looked at the tools you suggested and realized I misunderstood the question. Great looking tools though, I bookmarked them and filed them away! Yeah, I was wondering though how would a VM running linux allow you access to its partitiion from windows. But thats cool, It could've happened to me too. Edited May 12, 2010 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Just to be clear, the reason you cannot access the Linux file system in Windows is because Windows only supports FAT and NTFS file systems. Linux will be using one of any number of file systems not supported by Windows such as ext3, ext4, RaiserFS or XFS just to name a few. Fortunately, Linux is fully capable of reading and writing to the file systems Windows supports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceGuru Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 I have found those links but the first program doesn't find ext3 and others won't find my d drive ...I didn't partition I put it on my second HDD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I have found those links but the first program doesn't find ext3 and others won't find my d drive ...I didn't partition I put it on my second HDD What method did you use to install it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceGuru Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 What method did you use to install it? I used my whole 250 Gb D drive for it :/ I got a CD with my first time ubuntu book because I was to lazy to burn a .iso myself so i bought a 40$ book with it .... sounded right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 So you used the windows installer? That will have partitioned the second hard disk, if you reboot, you will either get a list of operating systems or you'll need to tell your computer to boot from the second hard disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceGuru Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 So you used the windows installer? That will have partitioned the second hard disk, if you reboot, you will either get a list of operating systems or you'll need to tell your computer to boot from the second hard disk. I get a list .. Would have been nice to just turn my comp on and it always boot windows unless I hit a key .. :/ (without waiting 10 seconds) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lein Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 I get a list .. Would have been nice to just turn my comp on and it always boot windows unless I hit a key .. :/ (without waiting 10 seconds) Mate you can, try searching the Ubuntu How-To. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto You can change grub to boot whichever distro you want and not wait 10seconds to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lein Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 And for your first Q regarding reading ext3 from Windoze http://www.fs-driver.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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