Windows - Read ext4 linux filesystem from the SD card on Windows

January 10, 2024, 18:58

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If you need to read data from a SD card that has an Raspberry Pi OS on it only one partition is visible for a Windows computer by default. This is because Windows by default only can read NTFS and FAT file systems and Raspberry Pi OS uses ext (extended) file system. To come around this Windows needs something that can understand the ext file system. ### Example of ext file system programs or drivers: - https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ (Program) Free version can only read ext filesystem. - https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ (Program) Free - https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ (Driver) Free