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Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 00:24:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: DOS that can read NTFS/XP paritions?
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On 29 May 2004 at 14:57, Dean Dancey wrote:

> 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

Nope. What I need for this is a version of DOS that allows reading 
and writing to NFTS partitions. 

A partitioning program would roughly *triple* the time involved, as 
I'd have to change the partition back after disinfecting it. And 
that's assuming that it's *safe* to convert the partition after the 
viruses have been messing with things.

It'd be quicker to stick the drive in a system running NT and run a 
Windows based disinfector. Which isn't practical when making house 
calls.


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com