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Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 14:57:09 -0400
From: Dean Dancey <dtwo AT sympatico DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: DOS that can read NTFS/XP paritions?
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shadow AT shadowgard DOT com wrote:
> Is there a DOS that I can boot from a floppy that has drivers to 
> allow access to NTFS partitions?
> 
> For the occasional badly infected system that folks bring to me, I 
> used to bott from a DOS floppy and run F-Prot for DOS (yes, it 
> requires putting in 4 floppies to get all the definitions loaded :-)
> 
> This would let me find all the infected files on Windows 95/98/ME 
> systems.
> 
> Alas, it's useless for Win NT and Win XP.
> 
> And when you've got a system that can't even finish booting to 
> windows, you *can't* use a Windows based AV program.
> 
> Thus, I'm hoping that there's a way to get accessto NTFS partirions 
> from DOS.

Would a partitioning program such as Partition Magic be of any help?? 
As they are able to setup and partition drives for various formats for 
Linux, DOS, and NTFS.  Or a partition manager of some type may be what 
you are looking for.  Hope this helps even a little. ;-Deano