A freemium tool for reading files from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4, HFS, UFS2, Reiser4, and ReiserFS partitions in Windows. Some filesystem types locked restricted to "Pro" version.



The best free alternative to Paragon ExtFS is DiskInternals Linux Reader. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Paragon ExtFS and nine of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Paragon ExtFS are ExtendFS, WinBtrfs, HFSExplorer and macFUSE.
A freemium tool for reading files from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4, HFS, UFS2, Reiser4, and ReiserFS partitions in Windows. Some filesystem types locked restricted to "Pro" version.



Open-source read-only ext2, ext3, and ext4 file system driver for macOS that uses FSKit, allowing you to access files from a drive formatted on a Linux computer.


WinBtrfs is a Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs. A reimplementation from scratch, it contains no code from the Linux kernel, and should work on any version from Windows XP onwards. It is also included as part of the free operating system ReactOS.


Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports Linux LVM2. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file system images.

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.



Mounting 3rd-party filesystems on macOS has always been tricky. There's official support for reading NTFS but otherwise we've mainly used solutions based on macFUSE. We've got NTFS-3g which is a pretty mature driver but for Linux filesystems there's only a couple...




HFSExplorer is for Mac-formatted hard disks, it doesn't work with Ext.