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Author Ext3 filesystem on Windows - Paragon's EXT2FS Anywyere Isn't Working
Eric

2005-09-18, 8:49 pm

Good evening, all...

I have a dual boot machine with Windows XP SP2 and Fedora Core 3 with
EXT3 filesystem.

I wanted to be able to read AND WRITE ext2 / ext3 from Windows, so I
bought Paragon's EXT2FS Anywhere product and installed that.

The problem is that whenever I try to copy files from Windows to the
Linux drives, it works for a short time and then I get a "blue screen"
Windows crash.

There was a note on the Paragon website's "knowledge base" regarding
that problem with one of their other products, and their solution was
to reformat all ext2 / ext3 drives with an updated version of mke2fs,
on the notion that there was a bug in the version that was shipped
with FC3.

So, I said OK, and I downloaded and installed the new version of
mke2fs and reformatted my drives ... sort of like the standard Windows
fix for problems which is "Re-install Windows". :-)

No such luck ... Windows still "blue screens" and crashes after a very
short time into a file-copying session.

Several requests for help from Paragon over the last three weeks have
gone unanswered.

Anyone have any ideas?

2005-09-27, 7:58 am

In article <0dmri1liuveok9b34aocc2reu7m8lb38i7@4ax.com>,
Eric <reply.to.newsgroup@nospam.no> wrote:

>Several requests for help from Paragon over the last three weeks have
>gone unanswered.


Sounds like their stuff doesn't actually work.

>Anyone have any ideas?


Yeah, dump windoze entirely or run in under vmware.

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