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From: "Michal H. Tyc" <mht AT bttr-software DOT de>
Organization: BTTR Software
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 21:27:07 +0200
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Subject: Re: DOS that can read NTFS/XP paritions?
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On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:47:57 -0700, 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?

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.)

> 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 :-)

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). 

Hope this helps,

Michal