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Accessing Zorin files from windows

rutl2745

Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:40:36 am

I currently have a dual-boot system with Zorin and Windows 7. Is there any way I can access my Zorin files through my windows partition ?

Wolfman

Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:10:58 am

Hi,

not afaik, Windows doesn't like playing with Linux so a resounding "NO" is the answer!!, what you can do is when you set up Linux, choose NTFS file format for your /home and Windows should see it, if you use the standard Linux formats like Ext3 or 4; it won't.

Regards Wolfman

rutl2745

Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:49:04 am

Thank you Wolfman, I appreciate the advice !

spavila

Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:11:02 am

rutl2745 wrote:I currently have a dual-boot system with Zorin and Windows 7. Is there any way I can access my Zorin files through my windows partition ?

You might try EXT2Read, although I have not tried this.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/

This is my solution to sharing files between Zorin and Windows:
http://jj89128notes.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-share-files-between-windows-7.html

kc1di

Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:39:10 am

I've found that ext2 mentioned above work ok for my needs. here's a page that discribes it a bit. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tools-to-access-linux-partitions-from-windows.html