Nehal, Perhaps I wasn't so clear in explaining the situation. I don't think you're going to be able to read an ext2-formatted diskette without some other software. I don't know for fact that there is software for Windows that permits it to read Linux file systems (though I'd be surprised if there was not). OK, out of curiosity I did a quick check on Google. Here are a couple of possibilities: <http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm> <http://www.icewalkers.com/softlib/app/app_00219.html> Good luck. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 17:49 2002年09月28日, Ashish Mehta wrote: >Hi Randall, >> Thanks for your prompt reply. Actually I am a more >a windows oriented person. And I have not used much of >unix stuff except my project work. >> So again thanks. Let me try it tomorrow. And I >will get back to you if I have some thing new >(problem) for you. >>Thanks >>Nehal -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/