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I have windows 7 and ubuntu 9.10 installed in my system. I want to view my linux drive in windows. Is there anyway to do that?

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Unfortunately this question is very difficult to answer, as "linux drive" is an incredibly vague term. You should check to see what the drive is formatted as, ext3 is the most popular, but without knowing for sure nobody can really provide an answer. – num1 Jan 6 '11 at 4:19
yes it is ext3 only.. @num1 – CHID Jan 6 '11 at 4:21
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I'm not sure the explore2fs utility will work with the Ext4 filesystem or not, but if it does not, you might want to try out ext2read:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/

Despite the name, it will read an Ext4 filesystem.

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Check out explore2fs. If that doesn't work with Windows 7 then I recommend Ext2 IFS.

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i dunt think the software provides support for windows 7 – CHID Jan 6 '11 at 4:13
I checked that before posting it, they just haven't either updated their site or who knows. However it should work fine with Windows 7. – Jon Jan 6 '11 at 4:14
Check my updated answer, fs-driver.org should work for you. – Jon Jan 6 '11 at 4:16
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you can try free ware "explore2fs" software

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thank you for the suggestion – CHID Jan 6 '11 at 4:12
but the software does not support windows 7 i guess. – CHID Jan 6 '11 at 4:13
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Other answers already given (trying explore2fs and Ext2 IFS) are the best I know if you are using a dual boot system. There are additional options if you use virtual machine rather than a dual-boot approach. Serve the directories you want shared from linux, and mount the remote drive from Windows.

I use a configuration with samba and VirtualBox running on an Ubuntu host, and Windows 7 running in a VirtualBox VM, and it works fine. I expect other combinations (NFS instead of samba, KVM instead of VirtualBox, changing which OS is the host and which the guest) will also work, but I haven't tried personally.

This may not be exactly what you are looking for (win7 isn't really seeing the drive directly), but may serve as a work-around if you can't get explore2fs or Ext2 IFS working on windows 7.

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