Comments on: Mount EXT3 in Windows 7 x64

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:12:00 +0000

I agree turning off UAC is not ideal, but it’s a quick fix to a problem. Some people have managed to get it working without turning UAC off. Personally I turn it off anyway as I find the implementation annoying. One of the reasons I’m a Linux user!

By: User

User — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:03:00 +0000

If you have to turn UAC off then you are a bad programmer. There are tons of file system drivers which run on the system startup flawlessly.

By: Albert Monera

Albert Monera — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:23:00 +0000

Great Post!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:33:00 +0000

Glad it helped. Thanks for the below tip!

By: Hintzy64

Hintzy64 — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:34:00 +0000

FWIW, I originally followed adic_tech’s instructions exactly, enabling the “administrator” user and creating a task to be run by that user at startup. The side effect is that it makes the “administrator” account appear on the login page, in addition to the real user accounts. (It’s nit-picky, I know, but I’d prefer the “administrator” account to not be visible.) Since my account is ALSO an administrator, I tried setting the task to be run by me as startup, with the “Run with highest privileges” box checked. It worked! So that means you can skip the step of enabling the “administrator” user, and set the task to be run by ANY admin account (you have to have at least one, anyway). It is set to run at startup, so it should run regardless of the type of user who logs in.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:14:00 +0000

Are you using EXT3 with the correct inode?

By: Zeddock

Zeddock — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:22:00 +0000

Any news on this?
I have Ext2Mgr version .48 working but when I try to write or delete on my home directory in the linux partition I get errors.

By: Hintzy64

Hintzy64 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:54:00 +0000

This is fantastic, thanks so much! I’ve been using ext2ifs in WinXP for years, and just decided to try out Win7. (For those handful of tasks I still can’t do in Linux…) It was driving me insane that it wouldn’t remember the drive letter on startup. It’s a subtle thing, but having this done automatically in the background makes me much happier!

By: James Hanna

James Hanna — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:52:00 +0000

It seems task scheduler works perfectly for mounting the volumes. Has anyone found another method for running exe’s from ext2ifs volume without disabling uac? I am still using “copy to temporary folder and open” shell extension that I made.

By: Hannaj1

Hannaj1 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:43:00 +0000

Also you can use the SYSTEM account from the Task Scheduler to mount the volumes. The method I was using to run exe files was to copy them first to a temp folder in an NTFS volume and run it from there (done automatically from a shell extension), but the activate administrator option looks like it might be easier. I’ll try it…