explore2fs is ok, but I found something better, an IFS driver. www.fs-driver.org it enables you to read and write ext2 partitions, ext3 is read as ext2, and it just makes a drive letter to associate the partition. Windows thinks its just another partition it can access now. I've used it and it works better than explore2fs

Microsoft is the anti christ of the technology world.

that one looks good ...

apart from explore2fs , these are the few utilities that i use to access my ext2/3 and bsd partitions ... Ext2Fsd-0.25(for read/write ext2/3 and comes with source codes) and ffsdrv-0.5(read only bsd , no source codes) ... both can do auto-mounting during bootup ...


//i cant remember the actual download link ...


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im not sure about hfs+ write support but there is a hack for osx to read/write to ext3/2 volumes, have a look here the 2006 patch works on ext3 aswell http://http://sourceforge.net/projec...group_id=64713

Linux Pro Magazine , Feb 2007 issue, page 84 says it works just fine if Vista is installed first. All they had to do was edit GRUB's menu.lst file. Problems only arise when installing Vista AFTER another OS, and their solution was to back up the MBR using dd, install Vista, then restore the MBR using a LiveCD like Knoppix.

Are you sure you don't just have a bad copy?

Well I hate to break it to ya............. but you can dual boot with XP and Vista. For me I had to install VISTA along side with XP on the same drive. If you have already partitioned you whole dirve with XP you can shrink it down with GParted. That is if you have enough disk space. GParted for those who done know what it is..... is a bootable cd that allows you to repartition your drive. I used a 160gig drive to do a dual boot XP and Vista. Once GParted was done resizing my drive, I installed VISA on to the remaining partition space on the drive. After VISTA installed it was added to the boot menu. I had no difficulties booting to XP or booting to VISTA.

Obviously you did something wrong!
I have Vista and Debian Etch dual booting and without any problem. To make the story short:
1) Installed Vista first
2) Installed Debian Etch
3) In Vista I had to install a little app called EasyBCD in order to edit the new windows bootloader, which is different from previous NTLDR (no more boot.ini file whatsoever)

Special notes that you should consider:

1) The partitioning is CRITICAL: I did a partitioning that didn't work at all. I only succeeded when I had this partition scheme

sda1 - swap (aprox. 512 Mb)
sda2 - ext3 (the root for Debian - aprox. 12 Gb)
sda3 - ntfs (the Vista partition with 38 Gb)
sda4 - ntfs (for documents - all the rest out of the 100 Gb of the hard drive)

2) You should install GRUB in your root partition. In my case, this was sda2. So, when asked to install grub package for the MBR I choose «No» and then installed it to the /

3) If you choose to install Vista AFTER Debian (or any other OS or distro) it will always take the MBR. That's why I choose to install Vista first (it will take care of the booting process anyway) and then Debian

I don't believe there's any easter egg in new windows bootloader - they simply make it harder for us, linux «lovers», to dual boot this OS with our loved flavours of linux. I believe open source has become really a threat for M$ (in the sense that more people is aware of it or experimenting their benefits) so they're difficulting our lives. But they'll continue dominating the market because they ship every pc or laptop with their OS so, sadly, their domination is only because they have an agressive marketing strategy (because if you think about technical aspects, they are «stealing» all the good ideas from Apple or the open source)

Cheers

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