From: "da Silva, Joe" 

There is also a read/write version of NTFSDOS available, called NTFSDOS
Professional, although this version is not free. For details, see :
www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/index.asp?pid=ap#ntfsdos

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	shadow{at}shadowgard.com [SMTP:shadow{at}shadowgard.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, May 30, 2004 5:24 PM
> To:	opendos{at}delorie.com
> Subject:	Re: DOS that can read NTFS/XP paritions?
> 
> On 29 May 2004 at 21:27, Michal H. Tyc wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:47:57 -0700, shadow{at}shadowgard.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a DOS that I can boot from a floppy that has drivers to
> > > allow access to NTFS partitions?
> > 
> > The only NTFS driver for DOS I know is NTFSDOS from Sysinternals. (But
> > the freeware version is read-only, so you won't be able to correct any
> > problem.)
> 
> Even finding them would help. :-)
> 
> And if it ain't *too* expensive, buying it won't be a big problem if 
> it'll work.
> 
> > > For the occasional badly infected system that folks bring to me, I
> > > used to boot from a DOS floppy and run F-Prot for DOS (yes, it
> > > requires putting in 4 floppies to get all the definitions loaded :-)
> > 
> > Two 1.44M floppies should be enough (maybe three, the v**** definition
> > files can have grown too much since the last time I made such a floppy
> > set, and NTFS driver will take some additional space as well). 
> 
> The definition files now each require their own floppies. Basically, 
> the first one loaded after the program won't fit on a 1.44 along with 
> the program (much less an OS). And the others are too big to fit on a 
> floppy with the others.
> 
> In the order you have to feed the floppies in...
> 
>  5-23-2004  23:16       1,117,130  SIGN.DEF
>  5-23-2004  23:16       1,279,405  SIGN2.DEF
>  5-24-2004  15:40         498,021  MACRO.DEF
> 
> So I have a boot floppy, the F-prot program floppy, and the three 
> definition floppies. All write protected except when I update them at 
> home. :-)
> 
> 
> --
> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> shadow at shadowgard dot com
> 



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