What FREE programs or demo programs that WILL allow me to read or clone NTFS partitions onto FAT?

[AlphaIVT]

I need to access my win2k partition to retrieve my 4GB of personal data, i don't want to lose ALL of it

 

[AlphaIVT]

anyone please?

 

[AlphaIVT]

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[medic]

NTFS or FAT32?

 

[AlphaIVT]

the win2k partition which does not boot, is NTFS, I'm on my FAT32 (win98) now.

 

[medic]

Shoot...I had a fully functional recovery program, but it only works with FAT32..
Can you put the drive in another box running W2K NTFS?
Or install W2K on another drive and try to access it as a secondary?

 

[AlphaIVT]

I tried, but somehow and somewhere along that line, something got f*cked and I didn't want to go back again. Installing win2k takes a long time, i hate putting those 4 floppies in :|

 

[OldPro]

Try NTFSDOS - allows you to boot from a win98/95 Dos floppy and read your NTFS partition. PC Mag has it in there utilities section. A company called Winternals apparently now has the rights to the program. The have a version call NTFSDOS Pro that has some limited write/rename capabilities. You can sign up for a demo copy (hopefully would run long enough to allow you to complete your recovery) but I haven't tired it. I don't know if you just get to download the demo copy or if you have to talk to a salesrep or something. Sorry, didn't need Pro version, didn't have time to poke around any further.

Good Luck!

Here's the ZDNet linkHere's the Winternals site

Wait Wait Wait!!!! Check out this link I found on the Winternals page. Look up ERD Commander 2000, FAT32 for NT, NTFSDOS, and NTFSDOS PRO as freeware!!. Just skip the ZDNet utilities and jump straight here. I'm running NT and some of this look just great! I can't wait to try some of them!!

P.S. How the h*ck do you guys get black on yellow highlights instead of this white on gray stuff no-onw can read?

 

[AlphaIVT]

i had this sig before the change to the gray highlights were made, if i change it again, it'll be grey, some people have green, the first color.

Thanks mucho grande OldPro! I'll download those progs tomorrow!

 

[wyvrn]

I have a new question on same subject. Is there a program smaller than part magic that will allow me to delete an ntfs partition or convert ntfs to fat?

fdisk does not work for ntfs, and I am trying to use disk administrator but it keeps telling me something is accessing the drive and will not let me reformat/delete the partition. I closed all processes that NT would let me, but still cannot delete it.