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MamaKin
04-16-2004, 11:29 AM
A friend of mine has asked me to put Linux Suse Pro and MS Windows Pro on his lappy.

So I went about doing so. I partitioned the HDD into to parts. And put windows on the 1st partition and Linux on the 2nd.

However he would like to be able to browse the linux partition in windows.

Ie. Start>My Computer and selecting the partition from there. But all I can view is the windows partition. C:

Is there anyway to solve this problem of windows not being able to see/browse/pick up the Linux partition?

Thanks for any help,
Craig :)

Soritong
04-16-2004, 06:12 PM
There are various tools to access the ext2 filesystem from Windows.

Those include LTools (for DOS and Windows 3.x, 9x, and NT), explore2fs (for Windows 95 and Windows NT), FSDext2 (for Windows 9x) and ext2fsnt (for NT).
Each of those operates in different ways. For example, FSDext2 and ext2fsnt provide device drivers that access ext2 partitions on the Windows machine with standard Windows commands and tools. LTools and explore2fs provide commands that explore your ext2 partitions from Windows. Unfortunately, FSDext2 provides read-only access to your ext2 partitions, though the all the others provide read-write access.

MamaKin
04-18-2004, 11:49 AM
Thanks alot. Will give them a try :)