X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: shadow AT shadowgard DOT com Organization: Shadowgard To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 00:24:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: DOS that can read NTFS/XP paritions? Message-ID: <40B929A5.24612.6AC6E18@localhost> In-reply-to: <200405291927.i4TJRi2A023865@delorie.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 29 May 2004 at 21:27, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > 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.) 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