But no, the playback was perfect under one player while two others failed. Although not always necessarily true, if it was the Ext mounter’s fault, then all the media players should have failed because there was very little ‘Dokan’ could do, if Paragon’s Ext mounter provided it with corrupted data reads. How is this possible ? I do not know the exact reason, but my guess is, it is because of ‘Dokan’. Windows Media Player however, played the file perfectly well!. Then I tried it under VLC and it just gave this big fat error and exit. First I tried playing it through ‘PotPlayer’ and it continuously skipped frames while playing. The web page and the ‘Zip’ files were read without any issues, but the video playback was interesting. I used Ubuntu 13.10 and ‘ KaOS 2014‘ (both residing on ‘Ext4’) for testing this tool (version 2.73, Windows 8 64-bit), on two different occasions, and the results were pretty much identical.įirst I tried reading a web page, a ‘Zip’ file and a video file. In other words, neither the Paragon’s ‘Ext’ mounter nor Windows operating system are aware of each others existence, which is also why, the mounted ‘Ext’ file systems are displayed as ‘Dokan’ in Windows file explorer, not as ‘Ext 2/3 or 4’. When the ‘Ext’ mounter done doing its job (say a file read), then it passes that data to ‘Dokan’ and ‘Dokan’ then passes it to Windows. In other words, when you access a ‘Ext’ file system under Windows using ‘ExtFS …’, Windows passes your request to ‘Dokan’, and then ‘Dokan’ passes that to the Paragon ‘Ext’ mounter. To spare you with the boring technical details, ‘Dokan’ acts as the middle man between Windows’ Kernel and the Paragon’s utility that actually deals with the ‘Ext’ file systems. This tool uses another utility called ‘Dokan’ (a separately developed utility, now abandoned). I have had used this program in its early days not ever since, but recently I came across it quite accidentally and decided to give it a go under Windows 8.īut before I begin, let me give you a brief introduction to this utility because I think it is important. It also comes with GUI programs “LTOOLSgui” (Java based graphical user interface) and LTOOLSnet (.NET based user interface).‘ExtFS for Windows’ is a free program from ‘PARAGON’ software group that enables Windows users to access their Ext 2/3/4 file systems directly from ‘My Computer’. The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools to read and write Linux ext2, ext3 and ReiserFS filesystems (Linux’s standard filesystems) from DOS or Windows running on the same machine. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. The program provides for read-only access and does not allow you to make records in Ext2/Ext3 file system partitions.ĭownload Link Ext2 FSD (File System Driver):Įxt2 FSD is an open source linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows systems (2K/XP/VISTA/7, X86/AMD64).Įxt2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. Files, and directories of an Ext2 volume appear in file dialogs of all applications.ĭownload Link DiskInternals Linux reader:ĭiskInternals Linux Reader runs under Windows and allows you to browse Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems and extract files from there. It installs a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system to include the Ext2 file system.Įxt2 volumes get drive letters. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 file system.ĭownload Link Ext2 IFS (Installable File System):Įxt2 IFS provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 file systems.
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