RE: Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as (Unknown partition)?

2005-05-04 Thread Morche Matthias
On http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html You will find an ext2-driver for WXP, who is also able to read and write ext3-filesystems. matthias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, explore2fs found both my boot and root partitions on the firewire external drive with no trouble. Thanks for the

Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as (Unknown partition)?

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Farley
On a firewire-mounted external hard drive I have an EXT3 partition that used to be the root file system for an RH7.3 linux setup. Is there any way to mount such a partition to cygwin when XP doesn't recognize it with a drive letter? The partition is primary, not extended. Regards, Peter

Re: Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as (Unknown partition)?

2005-05-03 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:00 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote: On a firewire-mounted external hard drive I have an EXT3 partition that used to be the root file system for an RH7.3 linux setup. Is there any way to mount such a partition to cygwin when XP doesn't recognize it with a drive letter? The partition is primary, not

Re: Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as (Unknown partition)?

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Farley
Thanks Larry. I only need read access for my home system and not commercial support, so I'll check out Explore2fs. Peter --- Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:00 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote: On a firewire-mounted external hard drive I have an EXT3 partition that used to be the root file

Re: Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as (Unknown partition)?

2005-05-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Larry Hall wrote: No. You need software that knows the filesystem first. You can check out Paragon if you're looking for commercial support. There is an older free S/W driver for ext2 and NT but I haven't tried it since NT 4 and I can't recommend it. If you're just looking to get read

Re: Can I mount an EXT3 partition that WinXP sees as (Unknown partition)?

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Farley
FYI, explore2fs found both my boot and root partitions on the firewire external drive with no trouble. Thanks for the pointer, this is just what I needed, an easy way to copy info over to cygwin. Peter --- Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:00 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote: On a