
And Windows USB management isn't able to mount any disk nor partition. I've no experience with Disk Genius, only heard of it. Staffordtb wrote:Disk Genius could not see the drive. (only displayed in the lower section of the Windows disk manager). And I can't see its other partition displayed in its upper section in the screenshot of the Windows disk manager neither although it recognized it And the screenshot is taken at a moment when disk management has not yet or no longer recognized any removable device attached although remembering there has been an attached device before as it has recognized and mounted another removable disk as disk 2 (3rd disk) and mounted one of its partitions as drive d. Windows management of USB disks is more complicated and involves various other steps before disk management interferes. Don't remember the details in times of Windows NT 4, but at least since Windows XP Windows was able to detect Linux file systems on SATA devices as other file system and would report correctly its size. Sazzad_Jca wrote:you can't see your USB disk from disk management as Windows can't recognized Linux file system.Ĭan't confirm. Marking a topic as answered will not close it and will not prevent any further answers if that is your fear, looking for other alternatives. The easiest way I have found to access the Linux partition drive from Windows machine is using 3rd party tools "DiskGenius".ĭoes this mean that your topic is answered although you kept it in state still needing answers?

" in that context as specified in the article, I get an error reporting: That didn't change with the update to WSL 2.0.Īlso trying to start the Windows explorer from within OpenSuSE in WSL as proposed by that article didn't work. I can only see the other way round, both file systems from within OpenSuSE in WSL and exchange data between both from OpenSuSE in WSL. I can only report that without additional measures, I cannot see the Linux file system from within Windows explorer. But when I start OpenSuSE in WSL (on Windows 10 1909) and then start Windows explorer, I can't see an entry for WSL nor OpenSuSE. The news is that with WSL 2.0 as included in Windwould add integration into Windows explorer. The news in the article is not the possibility to mount external devices. OpenSuSE within WSL to copy files around, to Linux system and to Windows system. What I didn't check is if these mounts may be accessed with Windows file explorer too. Haven't seen a change with the update to WSL 2.0. Already with that older version of WSL, WSL used external mounts.


I didn't read through all of your reference, just a quick read of a subset. Does Windows Subsystem for Linux allow ext mounts? I'm not sure.
