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[Paul Carter]

If I take one of the hard disks out of my DNS-323 and put it into my Vista PC will I be able to read it using the EXT2 IFS (http://www.fs-driver.org/)?  I have two drives formatted as standard (i.e. separate) drives and will soon be running out of space on one of them so will need to upgrade and this seems like the easiest way to get the content from the old drive and onto the new one

thanks
Paul

[bigclaw]

I was able to do so a while back with a Vista Ultimate box.

[fordem]

I haven't personally tried it, but, I understand the ext2ifs installable file system driver does not work with Vista - I have used it with XP Pro successfully.

[Tenrec]

Found this old thread and tried  EXT2 IFS (http://www.fs-driver.org/) on XP Pro, eSATA from hard drive dock. I don't even have to open PC's case. Works great!

IFS has been updated and its home page now says:

"It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access)."

[gunrunnerjohn]

I'm using EXT2FSD on Windows 7, but I had issues trying to get EXT2IFS running here.

[PeterF]

Hi,  I had Ext2IFS running perfectly several firmware versions (and reformats) ago.  I was able to mount a 1.5TB Seagate drive from my DNS-323 on a Windows XP computer, and access the entire drive as one large Ext2 partition.   I am now at the current version (1.9) and I tried reading reading a newly Ext2 formatted 2TB Hitachi drive, and it appears the partition structure has changed.   Instead of one large Ext2 partition,  there is a small Ext2 partition and a large "Linux" partition which will not mount on the Windows Filesystem.   Does anyone know what changed, and if it will be possible to format my 2TB drive as one large Ext2 partition so I will be able to read it via Ext2IFS?   Thank you. 

[jamieburchell]

AFAIK, the DNS-323 has always created extra partitions on drives- RAID or otherwise. My separate drives have at least one extra partition. You should use the NAS to format and prepare the drives for use in the NAS.

[PeterF]

I am sorry if I wasn't clear..   Yes, I know I need to format the drive in the NAS.    My point is that I was able to read the my data from the drive using Ex2IFS with an earlier version of the firmware (1.06), and now it doesn't work.   My data shows up as a "Linux" partition that is not accessible by Ext2IFS.

Is there a workaround for this issue, or do I need to load an earlier version of the firmware and reformat my drives?  Thank you.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Ex2FSD might work, it's what I use for Windows 7. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/

[jamieburchell]

I am sorry if I wasn't clear..   Yes, I know I need to format the drive in the NAS.    My point is that I was able to read the my data from the drive using Ex2IFS with an earlier version of the firmware (1.06), and now it doesn't work.   My data shows up as a "Linux" partition that is not accessible by Ext2IFS.

Is there a workaround for this issue, or do I need to load an earlier version of the firmware and reformat my drives?  Thank you.

You don't need to do anything with your firmware. I've read data from drives with both drivers from 1.05+

Perhaps the data is corrupt?