Access the Ubuntu partition from Windows


avi12

I have 1 SSD and 2 HDDs - each with 1 TB capacity. Windows 10 is installed on the SSD and Ubuntu 18.04 is installed on one of the HDDs.
I need to be able to access the HDD from Windows, but currently I can't as its filesystem is apparently EXT4.
I need to be able to access the HDD from Windows for a number of reasons:

  1. I'd like to install some storage hogging software for Windows on that HDD because I'm not going to use Ubuntu every day anyway.
  2. I'm planning to record some videos on Ubuntu, so I need to access the video files from Windows in order to edit them in a video editor program.

What I've been trying to do unsuccessfully so far is the following:

  1. Using Ext2Fsd - it successfully granted me access to the HDD, but also interrupted the loading of Ubuntu and possibly even the entire Ubuntu partition. (I didn't do that though because I couldn't type anything into the command line interface whenever I encountered that screen)
  2. Tried to reinstall Ubuntu, but this time through the installer first setting to FAT32 - it refused. (The idea came to me because I read online that Ubuntu can read FAT32)

So now I'm lost.

What is my solution? Thanks!

Bruce Lytle

My solution was to partition the HDD with 4 partitions,

1 bootable partition for partial installation of Ubuntu (type 83, formatted as ext3, ext4 or whatever flavor you like...) mounted in /

Mount 2 partitions at /usr (type 83, same format as #1)

Mount 3 partitions (types 6, 7, b, c (any DOS type filesystem desired, formatted as MSDOS) at /home#)

Mount 4 partitions (type 82 formatted as linux swap) as swap.

With this setup, Linux will mount /home (/dev/hdd3) as an MSDOS filesystem without caring. Windoze now recognizes the /home directory as an MSDOS filesystem and is able to mount/read/write to it.

Hope this works for you!

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