Is there a DOS prog that will read NTFS files?

[Harvey]

I help a lot of friends, including some still running Win 98 SE. It would be great to be able to boot to a FD or Win 98 DOS promt and read, copy and even access files on an NTFS disk.

TIA

 

[MrChad]

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsDos.html

 

[Harvey]

Thanks! :beer: :thumbsup:

 

[Nothinman]

Take a look at Knoppix, yes it's Linux and you'll have to take some time to learn a bit about it, but it'll read a ton of filesystems (including NTFS) and has a lot more flexibility in what you can do with the data once you can read it.

 

[Harvey]

Nothinman -- Thx, but my main interest is in being able to plug my travelling backup drive (Win XP Pro) into a working Win 98 system and being able to access it from the working Win 98 system or bootable floppy.

I have a large collection of setup files I use on other systems, mostly downloadable utils like Ad-Aware, Spybot, including the latest definition updates. I want to be able to copy them in bulk to drives on older systems when helping my friends.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Harvey
Nothinman -- Thx, but my main interest is in being able to plug my travelling backup drive (Win XP Pro) into a working Win 98 system and being able to access it from the working Win 98 system or bootable floppy.

I have a large collection of setup files I use on other systems, mostly downloadable utils like Ad-Aware, Spybot, including the latest definition updates. I want to be able to copy them in bulk to drives on older systems when helping my friends.

Keep in mind that a live CD such as Knoppix, Bart's PE (or Ultimate Boot CD) may be a better bet for what you're looking for. The NTFS DOS utility I linked to works well, but it is PAINFULLY slow to use. A live CD with a set of utilities may be a better option.

 

[Cheetah8799]

I too suggest Knoppix as a good boot solution to access NTFS partitions on hard drives.

 

[Nothinman]

Keep in mind that a live CD such as Knoppix, Bart's PE (or Ultimate Boot CD) may be a better bet for what you're looking for. The NTFS DOS utility I linked to works well, but it is PAINFULLY slow to use. A live CD with a set of utilities may be a better option.

Yes and if you want to do anything else while NTFS4DOS is loaded you're probably screwed because of the memory limitations of DOS.