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Originally Posted by John A 
If you only need to read from your Ubuntu partition, go ahead and use the ext3 drivers for Windows. While they have some problems with writing files, read-only access works fine.
The newest versions of Ubuntu come preinstalled with ntfs-3g, the driver that provides write access to NTFS partitions, and it's been in a very stable state for over a year. If you want a GUI configuration tool for it, go here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mo...irdPartyNTFS3G
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Well, like I already explained, these are the only reliable methods available to you:
- Within Ubuntu, read/write to your NTFS (Windows) partition
- Within Windows, read from your ext3 (Ubuntu) partition
Sorry, but there's no reliable driver for writing to Ubuntu from Windows (not saying drivers don't exist, but you risk losing data).
You could create an intermediate FAT32 partition which both OSs can read/write to, but that's not going to give you any more advantages or benefits than your NTFS partion already provides (as both OSs can already read/write to that reliably).
- Within Ubuntu, read/write to your NTFS (Windows) partition
- Within Windows, read from your ext3 (Ubuntu) partition
Sorry, but there's no reliable driver for writing to Ubuntu from Windows (not saying drivers don't exist, but you risk losing data).
You could create an intermediate FAT32 partition which both OSs can read/write to, but that's not going to give you any more advantages or benefits than your NTFS partion already provides (as both OSs can already read/write to that reliably).
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