Access Linux partitions (ext2, ext3) from Windows Vista

No workie. You can only install the driver in XP compatability mode, then Data Execution Prevention prevents it from working.

It does not work because of the STUPID Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Vista locking the rundll32.exe. So this is what you need to do:-

1. Go to Computer -> right click -> select Properties -> select Advanced System Settings -> click Continue -> select Advanced tab -> select Settings tab under Performance -> select Data Execution Prevention tab -> select Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select: -> Add - rundll32.exe file in System32 folder... You need to restart your computer after this.

2. After restart... go to Control Panel..., press SHIFT then right click on the IFS Drives icon and select Run as... it will take sometime for Vista to process this... then select continue and Wa Laa! you are in the IFS menu!

Conclusion... VISTA SUCKS!!! Long live UBUNTU!

Please do it at your own risk...

I'm stuck early in the game:

"Once you have on your Vista disk, right click on it and select compatibility for XP Service Pack 2 as shown on this picture."

Click on WHAT? I'm trying to look for some kind of thing to interact with that the install left on my system, but I'm getting nothing like what the images show. Can someone point out what I'm overlooking? Thanks.

WARNING!!!

This driver works in Vista BUT later I had terrible problems with corrupt data in my linux partition.

SYMPTOMS
1. When linux boots, it complains that there are file system errors on the EXT3 partition.
2. Some applications does not run, some files (JPGs) are shown strange.
3. The GUI does not start if your home directory is corrput.
4. Linux does not boot at all if the root directory is corrput.

I recommend - DO NOT use it.

Thank you!
This page was very helpful to me!
At the moment no problems at all with corrupted data. :)

Thank you so much. I love that you found how to work this on Vista.

It just BSOD's my system out using this method.

It adds a minute to shutdown time.
I tried this just enough to see that it works under Vista...
It seams to work as far as I can tell, except for
in the sessions where this is used, a minute or so is added to the Vista shutdown time.
(where nothing seams to be happening)
I do have DEP off for the most part.

I used it and it worked out very fine in very first time there is no need of doing Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Vista, just assign drive letters and enjoy :)
i used release date:01-28-2008
Gr8

Everything works fine except that I can assign drive letter only to the boot partition on my linux. I am not able to assign a drive letter to the actual linux "filesystem" partition. When I run "IFS Drives", the pop-down menu for drive letter is available only for the boot partition. Anybody else had this issue?

Logical volumes does not work - I found out after digging around a little bit that this program does not support Logical volumes (even though the underlying file system is ext2fs). :( I was excited for a little bit but now I have to go back to rebooting to access linux files.

ok, i got it to install everything and the drive letter shows in vista. however, when i double click the drive, windows asks me to format it. any ideas how i can make it work without formatting and erasing all data?

I use Vista and I didn't have to change the compatibility mode, or reboot. And it worked fine.