How To Browse Your Linux Partition from Windows - How-To Geek

How To Browse Your Linux Partition from Windows - How-To Geek: "Ever need to grab a file or two from your ext4 partition?� Maybe you’ve wanted to backup a few important files while you were in Windows.� Here’s how to browse your Linux partition from Windows using a tool called Ext2explore.

Most Linux distributions nowadays use the ext4 partition by default, and while there are some tools that can read the older ext2 and ext3 partitions, Ext2explore (also known as Ext2Read) is the only one that we’ve seen that is able to read all three.� In the spirit of Linux, it’s also open source.

You can download Ext2explore from the Ext2Read Sourceforge page, and runs on Windows XP SP3, as well as Vista and 7 in compatibility mode."

Comments: Now that the struggles are behind us for accessing Windows from our Linux OS (for the most part), here is a way to access your Linux files from Windows.