Is there a way to mount an EXT4 volume image in Windows 7?

A possible solution, would be to use VMWare to create a virtual machine on W7. Install your favourite linux OS, then mount the image for it to access, or import as a file then mount.

You could then set up a Samba/CIFS share and access from W7.

Ext2read allows for read-only viewing, but not actual mounting, nor writing. (via #37512)

As far as I know there is no driver or application capable of writing to ext4 for Windows.

If you only need to read from it you can use EXT$ Unpacker, which is free and opensource.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/androidicsjbext/

OSFMount http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html

OSFMount allows you to mount local disk image files in Windows with a drive letter.

Works great for mount an Ext4 Image in windows and the download is just 2MB.

About the others:

• Mount Image Pro v6 [https://dailyuploads.net/ewmo7ypfr1m5] (^- could only get it to run by this version with an Anti Dongle patch)
  BUT Mount Image Pro can't mount Ext4 files (it's just good for *.iso, *.dmg, *.vhd and some more forensic images)

• FTK Imager 3.4.3 http://ad-exe.s3.amazonaws.com/AccessData_FTK_Imager_3.4.3_x64.exe Well I kinda same story - all kinds of CD-image support but none for Ext4

OSFMount doesn't have drop'n'drag support - also the use of OSFMount.com is not that simple to easy associate it with *.ext4 or *.img files to mount them. (it required addition parameters) So here is a cmd-script OSFMount.cmd

    @prompt -$G

    @echo OSFMount Script 1.0
    @echo ===================
    @echo.

    @set OSFMount_Exe=OSFMount.com
    @set OSFMount_Path="%programFiles%\OSFMount\%OSFMount_Exe%"

    @set MaxDrivesCount=4
    @set MountPoint=#:

    @set options=ro

    @set g_MuteOutput= ^>nul 2^>^&1


    @Call :CheckNSet_PathToExe

    @Call :MayBe_UnMountAll


    ::if "%2" NEQ "" set MountPoint=%2
    @set File=%1
    @set cmd=%OSFMount% -a -t file -m %MountPoint% -f "%File%" -o %options%

    @%cmd%
    @if Errorlevel 1 @(
        @echo Errorlevel: %Errorlevel%
        @call :UnMountAll
        %cmd%
    )


::  %g_MuteOutput% 

::  @pause

@goto :eof

:CheckNSet_PathToExe
    @call :SetIfExist OSFMount %OSFMount_Path%
    @if not defined OSFMount @(

        @call :SetIfExist OSFMount "%~dp0%OSFMount_Exe%"
        @if not defined OSFMount @(

            @echo ERROR: %OSFMount% not found!
            @echo.
            @echo Please copy %~nx0 into same dir where %OSFMount_Exe% is!
            @exit
        )

    )
@goto :eof

:SetIfExist
    @if exist "%~2" set %1="%~2"
@goto :eof




:MayBe_UnMountAll
    :: GetNumberOf (EXT4) Drives
    :: Well OSFMount can also mount other types but this is some kind of compromise or now  
    @set g_CountLines= ^^^| find /c  "="
    @set g_Drives=wmic logicaldisk where FileSystem^^^="EXT4" get Name /value

    @for /f %%x in ('%g_Drives% %g_CountLines%') do @set Lines=%%x

    @echo   Currently mounted drives %Lines% \ %MaxDrivesCount%

    @if %lines% GEQ %MaxDrivesCount% @call :UnMountAll


@goto :eof


:UnMountAll
    @for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%d in (
        '%g_Drives%' 
        ) do @(
    @call :UnMount %%d
    )

    @prompt -$G

@goto :eof

:UnMount

    @%OSFMount% -D -m %1 %g_MuteOutput% 
    @if not errorlevel 1 @echo %1 UnMounted!


    @goto :eof

Installation:

1. Copy/paste & save it as OSFMount.cmd (in Notepad or some nicer editor)
2. and put it in the same dir as OSFMount.com. (Well if OSFMount is installed to "C:\program files\OSFMount" you may also put it somewhere else.)
3. Create a link to the desktop or the quick launch bar

Usage:

• To mount a image just drag it onto OSFMount.cmd (or it's link).
• File association is also as simple - just choose OSFMount.cmd in the "open with" dialog.

Command line example usage: OSFMount.cmd d:\android-5.1-rc1\system.img

Well the next free drive letter is automatically chosen. If you've mounted more than 4 images the script will reset and unmount the others. (Change the line with MaxDrivesCount=4 in the script if you need more or less. )

So far that script is only made and tested with ext4 images. To work with other image types like iso's, vhd you may probably modify the script.