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I installed Ubuntu 10.10 to dual-boot with XP Home on my Asus 1005HA netbook. The main hard drive is an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. I've tried all the common tools for accessing the Ubuntu partition from inside XP, but none of them appears to work. Ext2IFS didn't let me assign drive letters - in fact, it doesn't seem to detect the Ubuntu partition at all. The Ext2IFS config tool in Control Panel looks like this (the SSD is 120 GB, and the Linux partition is 10GB as I recall):

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explore2fs doesn't even start. Linux Reader can't open any drive, including flash drives and external HDDs.

I can't think of anything irregular about my system except the SSD. Could that be it?

Gareth
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Is your Ubuntu 10.10 installed with an ext4 filesystem? Ext2Read can access that filesystem in Windows. The two you mentioned only read ext2 and ext3.

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fideli
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There is an additional problem with default ubuntu partitioning, with inode size 256 bytes rather than legacy 128 bytes. All of the Windows ext2/3/4fs readers fail on 256 byte setups.

Simon Sheehan
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Why would you want to access the Ubuntu partition from XP?

As an alternative I would recommend installing Ubuntu with two partitions. One for "/" and the other one for "/home". You could format the "/home" partition in ext3 (I believe you can also format it in FAT32 but I am not sure of this) and "/" in etx4.

With this setup both applications should be able to see the linux data partition.

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