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Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 00:24:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: DOS that can read NTFS/XP paritions?
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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. :-)


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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