get data from linux to window machine

Question

i am using window and linux in a single laptop. i want to access the files in present in linux os ,into the window machine.

can i do that. need your help guys.

Answer 1

it depends on how your window/linux is set up on your laptop. Are you using virtual machine or is configured as dual boot. If the latter, you can use tools like explore2fs to drag drop files when your windows is booted. Otherwise, if linux is booted, you can mount your windows partition using ntfs-3g and copy files to windows. If you are on Virtual machine like Virtualbox or vmware, then consult your manuals to see how its down

Answer 2

Try: http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs

Answer 3

Setup a Samba server on the Linux machine.

There's also putty, which includes pscp which will transfer stuff through the SSH server.

Edit (upon re-reading the question): You can mount the NTFS drive in Linux using the ntfs-3g file system driver.

Answer 4

In a Vmware machine, is just a matter of having installed the Vmware tools, then it's drag and drop.

It does not sound you're having that, but 2 native OSes. I'd do it in this way :

-You will need to know in which partition is your Windows, in your disk. You'll have seen it while partitioning at install (there are other ways to check which it is, later on).Let's suppose is hda1.(but you need to be sure) -Open a console window. -Create a directory in which the windows partition will be "mounted" (don't worry, you are not changing your windows partition) . To do so, just type in the console:

mkdir /mnt/windows

now you need to actually mount it:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

Then, to access it, you just type : cd /mnt/windows

Or browse by your Gnome, KDE, or whichever desktop, to that location.

Other way is just an USB stick ;)

Answer 5

If your linux partitions are ext2/3 - use explore2fs (links to it are in other posts). If you are running ReiserFS, try http://yareg.akucom.de/. If you are on another filesystem you should google for it.