On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Adam <[email protected]> wrote:

> John Mort wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth, there's an XP driver out there that lets it read ext3
>> which is really useful for dual environment situations.
>>
>>
> Thanks, John!  Did you mean http://www.fs-driver.org/ ?  When I first got
> this box, which came (unfortunately) with Vista, the version available then
> didn't work with Vista.  I just downloaded the latest version, 1.11a, and
> installed it under Vista, and results were erratic.  It found all my Linux
> partitions (all ext3 except for swap), but 3 out of 5 resulted in
> "unrecognized file type" and were unreadable.  The other two ext3 partitions
> it could read and write, including a file > 4.4GB.  I don't know what made
> those two partitions any different from the others.
>


That's the site I was thinking of.  Regarding your erratic results, the only
thing I could think to check would be to verify that the drives that aren't
being recognized are in fact ext formatted.  Provided they are, I'd respond
with a shrug.

--
John D. Mort
http://john.mort.net
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