If you have an Linux Operating system using EXT2 file-system installed along with Windows and want read/write access to the EXT2 file-system from Windows give free utility "Ext2 Installable File System" a try, once installed the utility provides any Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista computer full read/write access to Linux Ext2 volumes, The "Ext2 Installable File System" software package installs a kernel level Windows driver Ext2fs.sys which caches file data along with file system's meta data and all the on-disk structures of the Ext2 file system for faster performance.