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Windows doesn't recognise my Pendrive with ubuntu installed in it

Asked by dber

I've installed Ubuntu in my pendrive (not the liveCD, just the entire persistent Ubuntu).

I mean, what I did was:
1.Put a liveCD in a CD
2.Install Ubuntu, selecting partition: the pendrive
3.Everything works

I can run Ubuntu perfectly just booting the pendrive inside my Computer.
In Ubuntu, I can see my windows partitions perfectly.

BUT IN WINDOWS:
-It doesn't allow me to see what's inside the pendrive. It just allows me to format it, not my intention.

MY IDEA:
-With the partitions tool from Ubuntu, I can unmount some GB or free them, and format it to any type of partition, but the problem is that Windows doesn't recognise it either, I tried some types like NTFS and the FAT and FAT32, but Windows doesn't allow me to go inside it, just to format entire pendrive.

PD: my pendrive has 16GB, and the Ubuntu installed in the pendrive version is 12.04

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Your Windows OS is shortsighted and cannot access Ext4 in any way. It only just has access to Ext2 using a 3rd party tool. The NTFS access is a best effort attempt but does work because the community cares about things its users do rather than Mcrosoft who think their file systems and a few FAT ones.

You can resize your Ext4 in liveCD and then make a new partition in Windows then use that in both OSes. Alternatively you can use your flexible OS to store the data on NTFS which needs accessing on both systems. This caters for Windows :-)

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dber (davidbergadbg) said : 		#2

So as an Ext partition (Ubuntu installed) I can't access to it with Windows. However as a LiveCD I can.
Damn, I hate the LiveCD!

Thank you anyway.

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Jason (zzs) said : 		#3

Please use Ext2Read (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/)

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dber (davidbergadbg) said : 		#4

Yes, Ext2Read works. But just to read, obviously.

I've found on the network that people say Ext2Fsd work, but as they use it to configure partitions different that a pendrive, configuring windows behavior, it doesn't allow me to change the "Ext3" of the pendrive to anyone, so I can't read+write on it in windows yet. If anyone knows how to make it work with Ext2Fsd...

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Jason (zzs) said : 		#5

AFAIK, you cannot write the ext4 from windows, please use the NTFS as actionparsnip mentioned.

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