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How Do I See NTFS?

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Creedyou

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My friend's NT system "crashed" somehow. I think he deleted some system files. Anyway, I get an error right after POSTing that says NTDETECT failed. I got to a prompt with my Win98 startup disk, but I can't see his hard drive because it is NTFS. I was gonna try to copy the system files over but I can't even see his hard drive! Help.
 
Win98 doesn't recognize the NTFS file system, and it never will. There is nothing you can do about that.

Try using a Win2K startup disk, if available. You can convert the file system to FAT or FAT32 with partition magic (or similar), but I'm not sure what the results would be. Been along time since I used NT, but if I recall correctly, it does recognize FAT and FAT32 filesystems. You do NOT want to copy 98 files to an NT system anyway. That would be a sure way to kill whatever else might be left on the drive.

The easiest way is to just reinstall NT (he does do backups.....right?). Once you get a clean install of NT (or whatever OS), get an image of the drive. Makes for pretty painless reinstalls if ever needed.
 
How do I make an ERD if I can get to an NTFS box like XP or 2000? Also, is the ERD like a Win98 startup disk?
 
This may work..

Use Norton Ghost, make an image of the drive and burn that image to a cd-r. Take that cd-r, and if you need any crucial files off that HD than you can grab them.

Replacing system files with Windows NT based OS will probably not work. Time for a new installtion most likely
 
Since NT doesn't use any of the system files that 98 does you were on a wild goose chase anyway. Why not run setup and do a repair installation?
 
another vote for ERD Commander. My boss bought that for me and it has more than payed for itself. Never tried the free version, but I am sure it is great too. No NT/2000 admin should be without it!

NTFS DOS is also very sweet! ERD Commander is just so easy for folks that like a GUI.
 
Originally posted by: earthmanWhy not run setup and do a repair installation?
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How do I run setup to do the repair? Also, how can I get my hands on some NT4 system files? I tried using the Win2000 files with NTFS for DOS, but it told me I can't use 2000 files for NT4, go figure.
 
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