Ext2 File System Driver for Windows Reviews

Garbage crap on Windows11. Destroyed my existing partition after assigned volume name for other partition.

Doesn't seem to be working for me (v0.68/v0.69). The drive shows up (F:) but ends up not being a recognized filesystem. I then get a prompt to format it and to check my filesystem drivers.

Downgrade to v0.68 works fine.

V0.68 last working version with USB 3. V0.69 has a bug and will either crash or not mount anything mounted on USB 3.

Ne fonctionne plus du tout avec w10 1812 LTSC l'édition précédente ne m'a pourtant jamais fait défaut. Quand je le lance il demande d'être lancé en admin car aucun disque n'est visible et même lancé en admin c'est pareil, ne détecte plus rien....

Watch out, got BSOD related to cache manager with version 0.69 on Windows 10 X64 Pro (v2004)

Thank you for something that just simply works! If I must use Windows for something I at least want to be able to access all of my Linux work as well. It was as simple as download, install, and run for me. Thanks again! Win10 Home x64 version 1909, OS Build 18363.752

Close down everything and be ready to reboot after installing, because even if you choose "No - I'll restart later" when you click Finish the installer reboots the computer (Win10 Pro x64). Easy install, but even though I selected to run the service at startup, it did not start by itself after reboot, so I had to start the service myself, and the startup type was set to Manual in services.msc, so I had to also set it to delayed start and save the changes. Oh, and the service is named Ext2Srv, *not* Ext2Fsd. Haven't troubleshot much, but it does not appear to be reading the EXT4 formatted linux drive I just plugged into the USB 3.1 port. :(

G'day Folks, Very good Linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows. Found this a handy utility combined with the original exFat 1TB and 2TB USB Flash Drives that could not be formatted to NTFS. So I painstakingly formatted them to the Linux EXT3 to create a stable file system environment, which worked, to use my Directory Opus Synchronise, TeryCopy and other function. I just need to test the reliability of the USB Flash Drives formatted with EXT3 and to then load the Linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows into the Microsoft OS's workstations so I can read and write to the respective USB sticks. Currently I am using it on my Win 8.1 workstation to run all the tests.

Very handy tool. Well done.

I should have come here first! I needed to get the files off a Linux hard drive from my PVR. After trying various other recommended solutions, none of which worked, I stumbled across this software. I installed it and it just worked. All files copied across successfully and subsequently verified. I wish it had appeared higher up on my search list! My computer is home built, running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (with all the latest updates) and has 16GB RAM.

Works well for me on Windows 10, accessing files from an Ubuntu 18.04 EXT4 partition. I haven't noticed any problems.

You can't even uninstall this crap. Avoid like a plague! msg to developer : get a life.

Doesn't work on Windows 7 x64. It says the ext2fsd service is never started, even after reinstalling and choosing the option to "start ext2fsd on startup." I clicked "Mount" on the Linux partition I wanted to mount, but a drive with a "?" appeared in my Windows Explorer, and that's it. If I try to manually start the ext2fsd service through the interface, it just says it could not be started.

IT CORRUPTS PARTITIONS AND USER DATA! DON'T USE THIS CRAP! Don't believe the hype about this software: it's a dangerous piece of crap! BEWARE! This crapware should be listed as virus by AV companies: known for, among many other turn offs, corrupting partitions and user data. Besides, it doesn't support 64 bit systems. Don't use it! Go for an alternative.

Very easy setup and works for me since years. Currently with Windows 10 and an ext2 partition on Debian. Thank you for this project!

Thank you for corrupting my data. You could have tested it before realising this piece of garbage.

This comment refers to v. 0.68 (July 2016, as of August 2017 there's a new version 0.69 but I didn't try it, I just removed 0.68 from my windows after experiencing the problem I describe) , and there is no mention of 0.69 on the project website ext2fsd dot com) *DO NOT USE THIS* if you have a recent linux distro. e.g.: Ubuntu >= 16.04 Debian >= 9.0 It will corrupt the linux partition superblock, so you'll need to fix it (e2fsck) to be able to boot it again. The reason is explained on the Askubuntu site, look for this (URLs are prohibited...): how-can-i-prevent-windows-10-from-corrupting-the-ext4-superblock-every-time

must have tool

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*** BUYER BEWARE *** (i know the tool is free) Both the .68 and .69 versions are over reporting file counts and showing extra files in some folders but they do not exist. The file sync and copy tools are throwing errors because they cannot find the files. (One of my folders used numbers of files in the name, but the files in it were more than that) using the driver these files with legitimate names are showing up. Could they be deleted files/? i do not know. But I find the the driver to be UNSAFE for backing up linux media. Took me 32 hours to test via VMs.

Works perfectly for me. I use on: - Windows 10 x64 Home Single Language - Windows 10 x64 Pro

Works flawlessly. I needed to format an external drive formatted with Ext2. I tried a couple of other programs that fell just short. This saved me a lot of time and effort. Thank you.

Great for accessing your Linux partitions from with in Windows 7 x86_64. Installs and just works in minutes.

Do not work for UEFI Partions OS 64 bits