HOWTO: Windows 7 ext2/3 support [USB-Slave]

[DeliriumNL]

(01-03-2010 05:20 PM)simonmullan Wrote:  I am out of ideas, could anyone help please?

Unfortunately i have the same problem as you. I believe this has to do with the fact that a linux drive has to undergo a 'mounting' sequence in order to get acces to it. However i did read something about installing "As a service" rather then a program. You could give that a try (google for it). That might give the program the needed acces to automatically mount the drive.

Quote:oh yeah, do you have to disable driver signing each time you restart yout computer?

No, you do not. Once it's installed the driver is accepted.

[simonmullan]

But I never had this problem in Vista. I have looked around at installing as a service, I think all that this would do is make ext2ifs run on startup, or when PCH is connected, I'd still have to choose a drive letter.

Damn thing...

[DeliriumNL]

(01-05-2010 01:35 AM)simonmullan Wrote:  But..

I beleive this has to do with permissions. If you run it as a service it will automatically get the permission it needs. Worth a shot

good luck

[user771]

I tried both ext2ifs and ext2fsd on win7 but they are not working well. I can mount ext3 but all folders are empty. Can somebody help?

[ind0mi]

Ive just installed ext2ifs to connect to my a-200 via from my pc (windows 7 x64). got the program running and it finds the disk of the a-200. It has 4 partitions? is this right? do i have to assign letters to them all? well i assigned a letter only to the largest partition (1,8 tb). When i open this disk via explorer its empty! i already have a map structure in there and some movies i really dont understand this.

[maxyvan98]

Hello, Thanks for all post.

I m in the same situation as many of you. I have a hard drive on HDX-1000 in ext2 connected to my pc via USB, with win vista it worked well but now with Win 7, it don't work anymore.

I understand that the problem is my partition is 256bits, and that i must formatted it in 128-bit. But i have a hard drive almost full and i have not more space to save all data, so i would like to know if any data from hard drive will be delete if i format the ext2 partition in 128 bits with gparted-live-cd ?

DeliriumNL, you said :

Quote:This can be done by re-formatting [using a linux live cd] the 3rd partition on your drive using the ext2 format with journaling enablde and an inode size specified as 128 bytes. [example: mkfs.ext2 -j -i 128 /dev/sdb3]

Now with win 7 and ext2_1.11a, i have 3 partition on my hard drive :
j:/ ext2 = 250Mb
none : linux sawp = 494Mb
none : ext2 = 930Gb

So i must format the partition none : ext2 = 930Gb ?
I wanted to do many test instead of asking questions, but i can't lose data

Sorry for bad english,

Thanks