Access linux file systems from windows

Linux is an operating system that offers us the possibility of using different file systems (ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS and HFS, HFS +…), despite this great variety, none of them are natively accessible from Windows, so Linux partitions are simply not visible from Windows and we cannot have any access to them. So how can I access Linux file systems? Yes, you can do it, although you need to use a tool like the one we show you in this tutorial.

Linux Reader

To access Linux file systems from Windows we can use the Linux Reader tool which is completely free and its installation is very simple. This application is part of DiskInternals, one of the developers with the best reputation for recovering information, so its quality is guaranteed.

Once the application is installed, we open it and the whole set of partitions of the hard drives that are part of our system will appear. In this way we will be able to mount the partitions with a Linux file system that are not natively accessible in Windows.

This tool has limited functionality and we can only access the files of the Linux partitions for recovery, that is, we can copy the files to a native Windows drive and we can only open the files if we do so, we cannot directly open the files. files found on a Linux partition without first copying them to a native Windows partition.

If you want to learn more about hard drive partitions and their management, I recommend that you read our tutorial on modifying partition tables.