EXT3 windows?

mtrivs · 2006-02-07 18:47:02

I just formated my external HD in ext3 so that i could enable read/write support in both windows and linux, do you think it would be possible if i copied all of my windows partition to my external HD and then formated my windows partition to ext3 and then copied the partition back to the ext3 partition?

i have a feeling it wont work because the driver resides within windows, so it wouldnt know how to boot an ext3 partition, only read/write from it......What do you guys think?

brain0 · 2006-02-07 19:09:26

http://fs-driver.org/faq.html
"This software does not achieve booting a Windows operating system from an Ext2 volume."

The_Nerd · 2006-02-07 20:44:38

yes i agree with brain0. the filesystem driver is nice for sharing volumes, but it does not support booting so i dont believe it would work.

mtrivs · 2006-02-07 20:47:33

i figured that....

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#1 2006-02-07 18:47:02

EXT3 windows?

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Re: EXT3 windows?

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Re: EXT3 windows?

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