Windows 10: Transferring Data off EXT4 formatted drives on a Win10 PC ??

I have about 6TB of data stored on 2 ancient D-Link DNS323 Nas boxes. Each Nas has 2x HDD's in JBOD configuration using EXT4.

I'm building a Windows 10 based Media Server probably with Stablebit Drivepool and Snapraid. The problem is that file transfers on these ancient DNS323's can be painfully slow most of the time and experience has taught me I'm looking at a couple of days to get the data across when the time comes, whereas if I can plug the drives straight into the new Win10 Media server with Sata, I can get the data across in 3 or 4 hours meaning it can be done overnight and not interupt anyones viewing habits. (Our 2 households with 6 adult family members nextdoor to each other access all our Blu-Ray Movie and TV Show rips with 6x dinky little Odroid N2 CoreElec KODI boxes viewed on/in an assortment of 4K TV's, older 720p Plasma TV's, 1080p Projectors and VR Virtual Cinemas)

I read something about Linux support in the latest Windows10 June update and am wondering if Windows10 now has the built in ability to read the EXT4 formatted drives or if I need a third party program like the old EXT2fsd program that google just told me about?

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USB Flash Drive saying not formatted..?

Hi,

I have a Memorex Poker Chip USB Flash Drive 1GB, and It shows up fine on one PC as "Poker Chip" in explore, and I can transfer files... but on my other PC (the one I'm on now..specs in profile) it's listed only as H: Removable Disk, and when I click on it, it says: "The Device is not formatted, would you like to format it now? (Y/N). Why would it be recognized on one PC, but the not the other? How come the other PC didn't need it formatted? When I click yes to format it, it says: "Windows was unable to complete the format"

I went to the BIOS and USB 2.0 is enabled. And Device Manager does list it as a Memorex Poker Chip..

 

How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

¿You already tried this one?...

Run CMD


1. diskpart
2. list disk

Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

2. select disk #
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

good luck!

 

Quick ways to transfer large data files to another pc

Either network or connecting the laptop drive to your PC as suggested above. With only 20GB of data the performance difference isn't that relevant.