Free Utility Paragon ExtFS for Windows

Paragon
Software Group announced Paragon
ExtFS for Windows, a free utility designed to eliminate barriers
between Linux and Windows OSs by granting read and write access to
Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 file systems under all latest Windows versions.

Customers can get read and write access
to Linux-formatted partitions, which simplifies data sharing and
gives the ability to transfer files between otherwise
incompatible systems. It is a plug-in for Dokan – a file system for
Windows. The release follows beta testing by thousands of users.

It’s based on Paragon’s Universal File
System Driver technology, the cross-platform technology. Users and
organizations have more mobile device and platform choices today than
before, with the cross-platform device compatibility imperative
rising.

Demand by end users to access a range of multimedia and data
content from portable storage devices of all platforms has prompted
the company to extend its specialized UFSD technology offerings,
which provide high performance access (R/W, format, etc.) to volumes
of popular file systems (NTFS, FAT, Ext2/Ext3/Ext4/3FS,
etc.) under various platforms (Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, DOS,
etc.) where these file systems normally are not supported. The
driver technology enables any device on the network, from tablets to
smartphones to servers, PCs and workstations, regardless of their OS,
to communicate and share files.

Beyond access, UFSD
technology provides high data throughput speed –
equivalent to, or exceeding, native performance. 

UFSD technologies
have been chosen and implemented by companies, such as Intel, NVidia,
Broadcom, Realtek, Huawei-Hilicon, Marvell, Telechips, Acer, Belkin,
and others.

Features:

• Easy to use: Mount Ext2, Ext3,
  Ext4 drives like it is part of the native Windows file system.

• R/W access: Full R/W access of
  Ext2/3/4 Partitions under Windows.

• High Performance: Transfer rate
  is similar to the native Windows file system performance.

• Non-Roman characters supported:
  Including Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian characters.

• System Requirements: Windows XP,
  Windows Vista, Windows 7 (and 2008 server), Windows 8.