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If you have a desktop with Windows and Linux as dual boot environment and you  want to access a few files saved in Linux / Ubuntu file system from the Windows login. For example, you may need to share files such as Docs, PDF, audio, video, etc. from both Linux and Windows. The Ext2 Installable File System for Windows helps you to access Linux drive from Windows.

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

The “Ext2 Installable File System for Windows” software is freeware.

For the technically minded

“It installs a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system to include the Ext2 file system. Since it is executed on the same software layer at the Windows NT operating system core like all of the native file system drivers of Windows (for instance NTFS, FASTFAT, or CDFS for Joliet/ISO CD-ROMs), all applications can access directly to Ext2 volumes. Ext2 volumes get drive letters (for instance O:). Files, and directories of an Ext2 volume appear in file dialogs of all applications. There is no need to copy files from or to Ext2 volumes in order to work with them.”