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<p>Hello world :)</p>
<p>since I am a POPCORN HOUR (PCH) user and the disk I used in my PCH was failing so I had to backup my current data to my other disk that uses NTFS file system.</p>
<p>PCH is using ext3 file system and therefore can&#8217;t be readable in Windows by default.</p>
<p>To be able to read contents of disks formated with ext2 and ext3 file systems you&#8217;ll have to download a free application called <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/files/Ext2Read%20ver%202.0/ext2explore%202.0%20beta/" target="_blank">EXT2Explore</a>.</p>
<p>Among many others ext2 and ext3 FS reader apps, this one seemed the best, at least in my opinion.</p>
<p>Limitations of EXT2Explore are that you&#8217;re only able to READ contents of the drive and that you can copy files not larger than 8GB (8.392.756 KB) as seen in the picture below:</p>
<p><img src="http://wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/limitation.PNG" alt="" /></p>
<p>Comments are welcome!</p>