Someone can easily access Windows partition from Linux. There is a small free utility for Windows called Ext2IFS. It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 with full access to Linux Ext2 and Ext3 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.

During the install a diagram of hard disk let you assign a drive letter to Linux partition. It has lots of features:

• Supports both the 32 bit x86 and the 64 bit x64 platform.
• All operations you would expect: Reading and writing files, listing directories, creating, renaming, moving and deleting files or directories, querying and modifying the volume’s label.
• UTF-8 encoding.
• Files larger than 2 GBytes.
• Full plug-n-play functionality. When a drive is removed, the corresponding drive letter is deleted.
• A global read-only option is provided.
• File names that start with a dot “.” character are treated as hidden.
• Paging files are supported. (A paging file is a file “pagefile.sys”, which Windows swaps virtual memory to.) Users may create paging files at NT’s control panel at Ext2 volumes and more.

“IFS Drives” is installed at the computer’s control panel, which allows you to assign drive letters to Ext2 volumes. If you wish to uninstall the software, select “Add/remove Software” from the Control Panel.