Comments on: Mount EXT3 in Windows 7 x64

By: hatbout

hatbout — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:40:25 +0000

@generic: the quote is not needed as I tested. In fact, adding quote will fail with “The parameter is incorrect.”

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:03:43 +0000

I followed the directions using EXT2IFS on Windows 7 64-bit and everything seemed to work fine. I disabled UAC and set the mount command to run at startup. But Windows cannot write to my ext3 partition, only read. The “Security” tab where I would normally go to adjust permissions is not available for my ext3 drive. Does this always happen or is there something I should do to enable writing?

Thanks,
Daragh

By: Petter

Petter — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:50:54 +0000

Hi Guys!

First thing Im running a windows7 64bit box here.

I have installed EXT2IFS. Also used the mountvol command to mount the disk. No problem but when IT is mounted windows doesnt recognize it and wants to format it, I dont want that =)

any tips ?

-Petter

By: Tim Barsotti

Tim Barsotti — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:49:20 +0000

Forgot to check the box of notifying for follow up comments! whoops

By: Tim Barsotti

Tim Barsotti — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:48:19 +0000

Hey, thanks for your posting!

Just a heads up on the UAC, there is a much simpler way to get administrative access. As long as your are using an administrative account, you may right click on the command prompt and click ‘run as administrator’.

So you do not need to enable the ‘administrator’ account or set a password.

By default, Windows will not grant administrative privileges to the command prompt, unless you explicitly specify that you would like to do so.

By: Robert Beal

Robert Beal — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:23:58 +0000

Ah nice one. I’ll update the article and credit you with the find. I’ve been too lazy, never go into Windows that much. Plus I hate UAC too!

By: adic_tech

adic_tech — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:22:00 +0000

YES ! Its working without annoing UAC confirmation!
- enable Administrator account (net user administrator /active:yes )
- set Administrator password (net user administrator *)
- create a task in Task Scheduler to run as Admin at strartup the moutvol command
Succes!
adic

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:51:10 +0000

Thanks generic for the script hint.

By: generic

generic — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:26:56 +0000

Error correction, the command is not quite the same. Almost. It needs a set of quotes:
mountvol R:\ “\\?\Volume{792de021-9e3e-11de-80cf-001d094608bc}\”

By: generic

generic — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:25:02 +0000

The powershell script to make this work is the same as the command shown:

mountvol R:\ \\?\Volume{792de021-9e3e-11de-80cf-001d094608bc}\

Just put that in a .ps1 file and use start->accessories->system tools->task scheduler to create a new task to run the ps1 script at boot. Task scheduler is rather intuitive.

The only hang up is that by default powershell is set not to execute scripts unless they are digitally signed by some sort of authority. You can change this setting with the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet as explained here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176949.aspx