Mick Finnlay wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

On 09/24/2018 9:11 AM, Arlen H. Holder wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:03:25 +0100, Mick Finnlay wrote:

Click on the Folder Up icon next (left) to the edit field with
"Computer\" in it until you get a screen where all logical drives and
also the physical disks are listed. If you have a non-encrypted ext2/3/4
partition on your HD(s) it should be listed there. Double click to open.
Thanks. Please see the note by "Shadow" to your post elsewhere in this
thread.

I already clicked everything I could think of, where 7-zip does not seem to
even "see" any of the dual-boot Linux partitions.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=51629247zip.jpg

At least 7zip didn't work for me where my dual boot setup is 100% standard.

Can a third person try it out to report back for the team?

Yes, same results here, All I can get are all my windows drives and DVD
ROM, no sign of my Linux installation no matter what I click or open.

I rechecked and I can see and read my ext4 partitions if I right-click
on the PhysicalDriveX that has them and select Open Inside #. This gives
a list with all the partitions on the drive and double-clicking an entry
in turn opens a view with all the files and directories in the root.

HTH.

Go to the Program Files folder where 7ZFM.exe is located.

Right-click it and "Run As Administrator"

Then, repeat the experiments.

It took going back and reading Micks post a couple
times until it dawned on me "hmmm sector level".

*******

This namespace required the same permissions as using dd.exe
Windows port. To gain physical access to a hard drive at the
sector level with dd.exe, you have to be administrator. The
same applies to 7ZIP parsing the disk at the sector level.

In this picture, you can see this EXT4 partition opened.

\\.\PhysicalDrive2\2.img\

https://i.postimg.cc/Hxq3pkK1/7_ZIP_...inistrator.gif

The speed with which it opens a partition, varies a lot.
This capability might have existed in 16.04, but the
program seemed to be pulling structure into RAM rather
than using its usual stream-like semantics. This could
exhaust the machine to the point of freezing it. Don't
wait too long to do something about it :-) If the program
won't "cancel" when you cancel the operation, reach for
the hammer in Task Manager and aim for 7zFM.

Paul