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{{Infobox software

| name = Ext2Fsd

| title =

| logo =

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| released = {{Start date and age|2002|01|26}}

| discontinued = yes

| latest release version = 0.69 <ref name="latestrelease">{{cite web |url=http://www.ext2fsd.com/?p=236 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125125212/http://www.ext2fsd.com/?p=236 |url-status=deadusurped |archive-date=2019-01-25 |title=Ext2Fsd 0.69 released ! |date=2018-01-13}}</ref>

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2017|11|2}}

| latest preview version =

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| genre = [[Installable File System]]

| license = [[GNU General Public License#Version 2|GNU GPL v2]]

| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20190430101555/http://www.ext2fsd.com/|www.ext2fsd.com}}

| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/matt-wu/Ext3Fsd}}

| website = {{URLusurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/2019043010155520240805114013/httphttps://www.ext2fsd.com/|www.ext2fsd.com Archive of the original website]}}

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'''Ext2Fsd''' (short for '''Ext2 File System Driver''') is a [[free and open-source software|free]] [[Installable File System]] driver written in [[C (programming language)|C]] for the [[Microsoft Windows]] operating system family. It facilitates read and write access to the [[ext2]], [[ext3]] and [[ext4]] [[file system]]s.

The driver can be installed on [[Windows 2000]], [[Windows XP]], [[Windows Server 2003]], [[Windows Vista]], [[Windows 7]], [[Windows 8]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTcyMjg |title=Ext2Fsd: EXT3/EXT4 Support Now Works On Windows 8 |date=2014-06-19}}</ref> [[Windows 10]], [[Windows Server 2008]], [[Windows Server 2008 R2]].<ref name="latestrelease" /> Support for [[Windows NT]] was dropped in version 0.30.<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm |title=Ext2fsd|date=2009-07-27}}</ref>

The program ''Ext2Mgr'' can optionally be installed additionally to manage drive letters and such. Since the final release in 2017, theno applicationfurther hasupdates effectivelyhave been abandonwaremade asto itsExt2Fsd. authorThe seeminglyofficial disappearedwebsite insuccumbed August,to [[link rot]] in 20202024.

== Reception ==

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<blockquote>Don't use Ext2Fsd 0.68 or earlier versions with latest Ubuntu or Debian systems. Ext2Fsd 0.68 cannot process EXT4 with 64-BIT mode enabled, then it could corrupt your data. Very sorry for this disaster issue, I'm working on an improvement.<ref name="latestrelease" /></blockquote>

While it is not very clear whether v0.69 corrects this deficiency, users have reported <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/ext2fsd/discussion/143329/thread/ae5685f415/?limit=25#dd5d|title=Ext2 File System Driver for Windows / Discussion / Ext2Fsd: You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it|website=sourceforge.net|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> that Windows 10 prompts them to format the ext4 drive even with the 0.69 version. The known solution is to convert the said ext4 drive to a 32 bit version.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/ext2fsd/discussion/143329/thread/ae5685f415/#dd5d|title=Ext2 File System Driver for Windows / Discussion / Ext2Fsd: You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it|website=sourceforge.net|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>

===Fork===

A fork was created by Bo Brantén<ref>https://github.com/bobranten</ref> and is currently at 0.70b3.<ref>https://www.accum.se/~bosse/</ref>

==See also ==

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==External links==

*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20240805114013/https://www.ext2fsd.com/ Archive of the original website]}}

*{{Official website|www.ext2fsd.com}}

*[http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm Old website]

*{{SourceForge|ext2fsd|Ext2 File System Driver for Windows}}

*[https://www.accum.se/~bosse/ Fork Version]

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