NTFS in Win9x and DOS

[reicherb]

Anybody have any experience with this?

NTFS for Windows 98 is a NTFS file system driver for Windows 95 and Windows 98. Once installed, any NTFS drives present on your system will be fully accessible as native Windows 98 volumes. This free version provides read-only capabilities.


There also is a version for DOS.

NTFSDOS Professional mounts your NTFS volumes and gives them drive letters, so you can run applications and use files on NTFS volumes transparently. NTFSDOS Professional is small enough to run from a MS-DOS boot diskette so you can even access NTFS volumes on a system where Windows NT/2000/XP isn?t installed or able to boot.

 

[Derango]

Probably not such a good idea. adding 3rd party support for a filesystem to an operating system that dosen't support it is asking for trouble, not to mention a greater chance at filesystem corruption. Just my opinion though.

 

[reicherb]

any other thoughts?

 

[crisp82]

Sound in theory, but, apart from the little bit of extra space that you may gain, why bother?

 

[nihil]

Originally posted by: crisp82
Sound in theory, but, apart from the little bit of extra space that you may gain, why bother?

Well, if this actually did work seamlessly, it would be a big advantage to a lot of people. Larger partition size, encryption, file permissons, etc. All the perks of ntfs.

 

[reicherb]

I'm trying to make VCDs out of home movies and the 4GB file limit a pretty big problem.

 

[crisp82]

Guess so, but if you want NTFS, why not run 2000 or XP?

 

[reicherb]

I'm on Win2000 but have some Win98 Virtual machines that need to access my other partitions and the idea of being able to get to my data even if Windows crashes is kind of nice.

 

[crisp82]

Sounds like a good idea.

 

[nihil]

Originally posted by: crisp82
Guess so, but if you want NTFS, why not run 2000 or XP?

Good point. But i guess some people want the advantages of a decent file system in an os like 98. For some people XP or 2000 would not be worth purchasing.

 

[reicherb]

Originally posted by: nihil

Originally posted by: crisp82
Guess so, but if you want NTFS, why not run 2000 or XP?

Good point. But i guess some people want the advantages of a decent file system in an os like 98. For some people XP or 2000 would not be worth purchasing.

What file system advantages does 98 have over XP or 2000?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: nihil

Originally posted by: crisp82
Sound in theory, but, apart from the little bit of extra space that you may gain, why bother?

Well, if this actually did work seamlessly, it would be a big advantage to a lot of people. Larger partition size, encryption, file permissons, etc. All the perks of ntfs.

This is an emergency recovery tool, not a real file system for the 9x platform. It does NOT add support for encryption, file permissions (etc). None of the user infastructure required to do that is available, it basically mounts the entire disk as if you were the admin.

Bill

 

[nihil]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: nihil

Originally posted by: crisp82
Sound in theory, but, apart from the little bit of extra space that you may gain, why bother?

Well, if this actually did work seamlessly, it would be a big advantage to a lot of people. Larger partition size, encryption, file permissons, etc. All the perks of ntfs.

This is an emergency recovery tool, not a real file system for the 9x platform. It does NOT add support for encryption, file permissions (etc). None of the user infastructure required to do that is available, it basically mounts the entire disk as if you were the admin.

Bill

Doh! I need to learn to read more carefully. I totally missed that part. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[nihil]

Originally posted by: reicherb

Originally posted by: nihil

Originally posted by: crisp82
Guess so, but if you want NTFS, why not run 2000 or XP?

Good point. But i guess some people want the advantages of a decent file system in an os like 98. For some people XP or 2000 would not be worth purchasing.

What file system advantages does 98 have over XP or 2000?

I completely misunderstood what this utility did. I thought that it was making NTFS compatible for 9x. By that post i was implying that you could use NTFS as the filesystem to add a better filesystem to an already good os like 98. For people with older machines that can not run 2k or XP. But, since i'm wrong, completely disregard my thoughts.