>> I installed the fs-driver and it found the drives/file systems
>> .. however it seems to think the linux partition is unformated
Oh dear. I'm afraid I can't mimic your difficulty.
I checked that my 3 Linux partitions are all accessible to dd even
though some are on an extended partition, like yours is. All OK. I
changed their drive labels to "none" using Ext2IFS so that they were
inaccessible to Explorer as H:\ etc and to Cygwin as /cygdrive/h/ etc.
But they were still accessible to Cygwin and in particular to dd as
/dev/sda2 etc. So all still OK.
Can you read/write/copy/move files from/to your /dev/sda5 when
identifying it as H: (or whatever letter you've given it) in Windows
Explorer or in a DOS box? And as /cygdrive/h/ in Cygwin?
What do you get from
/usr/sbin/tune2fs.exe -l /dev/sda5
(if anything)?
Fergus
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