There's been a free Windows ext2 driver since the Win2k days[1]. It's not remotely perfect, and doesn't look like it's much maintained any more, but I've used

There's been a free Windows ext2 driver since the Win2k days[1]. It's not remotely perfect, and doesn't look like it's much maintained any more, but I've used it many times. There are numerous other offerings, both free-ish[2] and commercial[3]. Of course, now you can mount ext[234] on Windows using WSL these days, so it's kinuva moot point.[4] [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ [2] e.g. https://www.diskgenius.com/ https://www.diskgenius.com/ [3] e.g. https://www.paragon-drivers.com/en/lfswin/ https://www.paragon-drivers.com/en/lfswin/ [4] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/access-linux-filesystems-in-windows-and-wsl-2/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/access-linux-file...