WSL-Linux-Drive-Installer

script and guide about how to mount drives with linux filesystem on windows using wsl

Summary

• Prerequisites
• Hard-drive installation
• Donation

Prerequisites

• Linux subsystem on windows
• WSL2

Hard-drive installation

To install the hard drive you have to run the following command in powershell:

GET-CimInstance -query "SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive"

search for the first column your device. Before mounting the device, make sure that you have wsl2 in your enviroment:

wsl --version

It should show you wsl version: 2, if not then set wsl as the following:

wsl --set-default-version 2

Then you need to mount the device on wsl:

wsl --mount <value first column> --bare

This will mount the device. Run your linux distro on wsl and then check the device running:

lsblk

When you have found the device, use the mount command in the /mnt folder.

Donation

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