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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:22:37
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Subject: Re: Again about NTFS problem.
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At 07:41 PM 6/15/99, pavel AT insect DOT mail DOT iephb DOT ru (Pavel V. Ozerski) wrote:
>I understand that HIMEM.SYS bug is very important but I would remember
>about an another problem.  I (and not only I) use DR-DOS as 'first aid
>system' on Windows NT computer. Since I converted one logical disk to
>NTFS I cannot see this disk from DR-DOS. I understand that NTFS support
>is too complex to be the part of DR-DOS. The problem is another: I cannot
>use the popular NTFSDOS driver that must allow to read NTFS disks from DOS.
>The answer of one from two authors of this TSR, Mark Russinovich, is: "You
>failed to read the requirements: NTFSDOS Requires MS DOS 5 or higher". Well,
>but DR-DOS claims to be fully compatible with MS-DOS 6! But really it has
>therefore some important differences!

What version of DR DOS are you using?  Newer versions, from Novell DOS 7 on,
emulate PC DOS 6.  Older, pre-Novell versions pretend to be Compaq DOS 3.31
instead.

How exactly does NTFSDOS fail?  Does it give an error message?

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