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This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

If you currently have Windows running and you realize that you need some files for your work which you have stored on an Ext2 volume of your Linux installation, you no longer have to shut down Windows and boot Linux!

Furthermore, Windows will now be able to handle floppy disks which have been formatted with an Ext2 file system.

Linux Ext3 volumes can also be accessed.

It installs a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows operating system to include the Ext2 file system. Since it is executed on the same software layer at the Windows NT operating system core like all of the native file system drivers of Windows (for instance NTFS, FASTFAT, or CDFS for Joliet/ISO CD-ROMs), all applications can access directly to Ext2 volumes. Ext2 volumes get drive letters (for instance O:). Files, and directories of an Ext2 volume appear in file dialogs of all applications. There is no need to copy files from or to Ext2 volumes in order to work with them.

Features:

Detailed list of features:

* Supports Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista and Windows 2008.
* Supports both the 32 bit x86 and the 64 bit x64 platform.
* Includes drivers with a digital signature for Windows Vista x64.
* All operations you would expect: Reading and writing files, listing directories, creating, renaming, moving and deleting files or directories, querying and modifying the volume's label.
* UTF-8 encoding.
* Files larger than 2 GBytes. (Please read the FAQ section, too.)
* Supports hash indexed (htree) directories (utilizes the so-called dir_index feature of Ext3).
* Full plug-n-play functionality. When a drive is removed, the corresponding drive letter is deleted.