How to read external USB hard drive formatted ext3 from Windows 7?

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Published on 2010-02-02T05:24:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 21:21 UTC
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I had to format a USB hard drive to ext3 to use it with a Linksys nas box. Now I can't read the hd when I unplug it from the nas and plug it directly into my Windows 7 computer. (The computer accesses the nas over a wireless connection, so I like to plug the hd directly into my pc when transferring large files.)

How can I leave the hd formatted with ext3 and yet be able to access it (read/write) when I plug it directly into my pc?

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