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From: mdruiter@cs.vu.nl (Ruiter de M)
Date: 20 Nov 1997 14:00:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Linux partition seen by W95. Possible?
: >Is it possible to see a Linux partition under W95? And how is it done?
Yes. I don't exactly know what it is called, but a Windows driver (.vxd
or so) exists to read the ext2fs under Win95. Search for Windows 95
and EXT2FS. I think it's free- or shareware.
: That's not possible Dude, go to see the HOW TO for a better
: explanation..
: You can mount a Windows 95 partition under linux, but not the other
: way..
Oh, yes you can. Not with just M$ software, though :)
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From: hbaecker@island.net
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:23:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Linux partition seen by W95. Possible?
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
On 20 Nov 1997 18:35:35 +0000, Gareth Owen
<gareth@victoria.maths.keele.ac.uk> wrote:
>"gerzon" <gerzon@multiweb.nl> writes:
>> Is it possible to see a Linux partition under W95? And how is it done?
>> regards,
>
>As others has said, you can't mount it like you can under Linux, but
>you can use a DOS program called LREAD, which is something like
>mtools, to access the filesystem read-only. Check your local Sunsite
>mirror. If you can't find it I'll dig a URL out for you.
But you can mount it, read-only, if its ext2. Use fsdext2 from
http://www.globalxs.nl/home/p/pvs, which works without fuss or fault.
There is also a DOS package at Sunsite somewhere under the name
ext2tool???.zip that works well but with more (mental) sweat.
I am grateful to the authors of both.
Harry
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Subject: Re: Super-Colossal Crash
From: Patrick Zwahlen <paz@zurich.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:59:05 +0000
deedsmis@ris.net wrote:
> What advice is there? Will I be able to recover completely? The OS
> does allow me through some safety net to drop down into a shell for
> root and I tried fsck.ext2 /dev/hdb2. At some point, the program
> prompted me to salvage something it found... I didn't answer. Can it
> reliably recover my hard drive or am I going about this improperly?
> And, why did my computer reboot on its own so abruptly and without
> warning?
I also had to recover an ext2 partition after bad reboot a few times. In
any case, the fsck utility seems to work very fine, and I never lost any
data, but the process can be quite long, which makes your heart beat
faster and faster ;-) You could also try the following utility from
Windows:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
It let you explore your ext2 partition from Windoze (and copy files),
and the write mode is disabled by default (beta version...). It seems to
work well, and may help you to recover your data...
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