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Restart the Windows machine under Windows 8 and access the files from the location you copied them to.BTW Macrium free backs up these partitions and. Shutdown the Live Ubuntu image and remove the Ubuntu CD/DVD/USB/flash device from the Windows system. If you have any Linux formatted HDDs (with Ext2/3/4) file system and you want to read directly from Windows - say external USB from another system and dont want to have to set up SAMBA and a Linux OS then this program handles it quite nicely.Ext2Fsd is a lightweight and open-source tool to access Linux drive in Windows. It is an explorer-like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4/lvm2/ ext4 extents. Navigate to the files on the old linux drive that you want to recover, and copy them to a partition on the Windows 8 machine, a USB/flash device, or network storage. Ext2Read is another tool that can mount Linux drive in Windows. If you have any Linux formatted HDD's (with Ext2/3/4) file system and you want to read directly from Windows - say external USB from another system and don't want to have to set up SAMBA and a Linux OS then this program handles it quite nicely.

Look for dead system's disk on the Live Ubuntu's desktop/Nautilus/mount list.At the Ubuntu Live Welcome screen, select ' Try Ubuntu', not 'Install Ubuntu', and allow the system to load.Power up the Windows 8 machine when it starts, be sure to configure the BIOS to boot from CD/DVD or 'removable device' (USB/Flash) before the local HDD, or choose it from the boot-time BIOS selection.Insert the Ubuntu CD/DVD/USB/flashdrive in the Windows 8 machine.Power down the Windows 8 machine and attach the dead Ubuntu machine's disk via SATA (before power up) or USB (before or after).On the Windows 8 machine, either burn the image to a CD/DVD, or make a bootable image on a USB/flash device (I prefer the PenDrive Rufus tool on Windows).It can also be used to view and copy disk and file. This Linux Formatted partition cannot be access directly from Windows. Since Linux requires different file-system type then windows the volume is normally Linux formatted. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. Most of the Geek users prefer to have dual boot system with Linux and Windows OS installed on same hard drive.

Linux drive reader windows download#

On the Windows 8 machine, download the appropriate image from Ubuntu. Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files.

Linux drive reader windows iso#

I would suggest that you prepare a bootable image of the Ubuntu desktop installer ISO for the version you have/had installed on the dead PC, and use that to boot your Windows 8 PC. I think you would be be better off accessing the filesystem from a native OS. It appears that the ext2fsd solution has not been updated in over 2 years, and has outstanding known bugs that indicate they create data corruption, so I would be cautious about that approach.