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?

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Eric wrote:

> 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?

Yes.....

First I have seen your post in another newsgroup and to be frank this is
a Windows problem and not a Linux problem.

With that said, it is far simpler and safer to simply create a fat32
partition used to share files between systems.

If space is an issue then use Linux to read/copy the files from Windows.
NFTS support can found at; http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

To read/copy files from ext2/3 partitions visit;
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm


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