When a Linux hard drive is connected to Windows operating system, it will show as unformatted or asks you to format it. Therefore, you will find it not convenient to exchange data between Windows and a Linux distro when your computer is dual boot. Nevertheless, Windows does not have built-in capability to support EXT4, EXT3 and EXT2 file system. So, it is easy to access Windows hard drives in Linux.

Linux has the ability to read and write data to NTFS partition. In addition to NTFS, Windows also supports FAT32, FAT16, FAT12 and exFAT file systems. Moreover, Windows operating system is installed on NTFS partition. Either internal hard drive or external hard drive is formatted as NTFS by default before you store files on it. Why can't Windows read EXT4 file system? Is there an easy way to access the SD card in Windows 10?'Īs you know, NTFS is the default file system in Windows. Once the SD card is plugged to Windows, I am prompted to format it. Now I want to connect it to my laptop which is running Windows 10. 'I have an SD card formatted with EXT4 format and it is used in Raspberry Pi. Case #4: Recover lost data from EXT4 partition.Case #3: Format NTFS to EXT4/EXT3/EXT2 file system.Case #1: View and read data of EXT4 partition.