With this, you can set mount point and settings. It will auto-start Ex2Fsd driver with Windows from next reboot. While installing, mark “Make Ext2Fsd automatically started when system boots” and hit Next and finish the setup.Download Ex2Fsd from /projects/ext2fsd/.Mount Linux Ext4/3/2 Partitions in Windows Explorer using Ext2Fsd With this you can automatically mount Ext partitions on boot or mount just when you need. However, here we will use an opensource Linux file-system driver called Ext2Fsd which is solely made to bring Ext2/3/4 support in Microsoft Windows. We will review multiple tools in a future article. Though Windows had never interest on Linux file-systems, fortunately there are third-party drives and tools to open and read Linux partitions from Windows. In such cases your need to read those file-systems without switching from Windows.

Or your Linux system is crashed and you need to recover your important files using Windows. Or suppose, you are on Windows and you have an HDD or removable drive which is formatted in Ext3 and now you need to read files inside it. Thus, if you have a dual-boot or multi-boot system where you can switch between Windows and Linux from boot menu, you may sometimes need access to Linux drives/partitions.

Ext4 reader for windows 10