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Can I allow Windows XP to read UFS?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by lokey, 2003/08/05.

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  1. 2003/08/05
    lokey

    lokey Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have an HD full of information currently running as a slave to my master HD. The master HD is running XP quite nicely and the slave has a version of slackware linux running on it currently. Device Manager sees that the HD exists, but being that Windows does not read UFS (Unix File System), Windows Explorer does not recognize it. Some of the information on the drive is valuable to me. Is there anyway, thru an application even, to allow XP to read a UFS for a short time so I can pull important files?

    I do not have access to another box to put the UFS HD in and then Samba/Enet the information.

    Help?
     
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    Newt

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    I'm way out of my comfort zone here and going strictly on what little I could find with some internet searches but FWIW, here's my take.

    XP and Linux will both use FAT32 for data. So, if you can get your Linux data converted from UFS to FAT32, XP should be able to deal with it.

    I don't know if Linux has some sort of conversion utility but I also gather from reading that Partition Magic from version 7.0 can do the job.
     
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    luqa

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    WAG, will Linux allow you to mount your WinXP drive/partition to copy or move your files? :)
     
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    Barbara-Ann

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    Go in google and do a search for explore2fs, this software will let you read ext2fs and ext3fs partitions from windows. Alternatively, if you have at least 1 fat (16 or 32) partition, you can boot into slackware and mount the fat volume, then you'll be able to copy anything you want from the slackware volumes to the fat volume.
     
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