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What message do you get if you do not see your drive C: ?
Is it maybe "Invalid drive specification"? If yes,then that is because your drive C: is in the NTFS file system...You can try to use NTFS4DOS which you can boot of the CD.NTFS4DOS looks like this:
And you can download it from here:
http://computerfixpro.com/recoverytool.html
With the NTFS4DOS tool which you boot from CD,you can access any FAT32 and any NTFS partitions...
Cheers!
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He can do whatever he wants with NTFS4DOS including copying,moving,deleting blablabla as long as he puts all the neccessary DOS files in that ISO image before burning it to the CD.
If he wants,I can upload them for him.This is exactly what surprises me the most. One of the options in formatting diskette is to make it bootable and this is what I did. What kind of dummy designs bootable diskette in such a way that it does not contain drivers support, either for hard drive or compact disk.
The message I get is "Invalid Drive Specification". I do not want to download anything from the internet. Please tell me which file from existing Windows XP Professional I have to copy on diskette and what commands I need to add to autoexec.bat and config.sys file. This is my question.
The message I get is "Invalid Drive Specification". I do not want to download anything from the internet. Please tell me which file from existing Windows XP Professional I have to copy on diskette and what commands I need to add to autoexec.bat and config.sys file. This is my question.
tremmor
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won't work with 64 bit for one thing.
everything now leads a trail back to wininternals.
diskettes, bootable diskettes, or hard disk installations. You can use a single diskette on any number of systems, but note that the version of NTFS might vary from one machine to the next depending on the version of Windows NT/2000/XP installed.
When creating a bootable diskette you can add MS-DOS to the diskette either before or after installing NTFSDOS Professional on it. You can create a MS-DOS 7.0 boot diskette from within Windows 95/98 using either the “FORMAT /S A:” command or “SYS A:” from the command prompt.
The Creator program is installed in the program group where you installed NTFSDOS Professional. When run, it will take you through the following configuration screens:
Welcome screen: Click Next to proceed.
Locate Windows NT/2000/XP System Files: NTFSDOS Professional utilizes several files that are installed with Windows NT/2000/XP. You can select either the top level directory of your Windows NT/2000/XP installation (for example E:\WINNT) or a directory to which you have copied the necessary system files, and Creator will automatically locate the files for you.
Choose Destination Disk or Directory: Choose the disk or directory where you would like NTFSDOS Professional to be installed. This can be any directory on your hard disk or floppy disk including the root directory, but it should be a directory accessible by MS-DOS (i.e. a FAT or FAT32 volume). If you specify a location on drive A: then Creator will create two diskettes: The first diskette will contain the NTFSPRO.EXE executable and related files, which allows you to mount NTFS drives and access them. The second disk will contain the NTFSCHK.EXE executable and related files, which allows you to CHKDSK your NTFS drives. Creator will automatically compress all Windows NT/2000/XP system files when copying them to a diskette, so the names and sizes of files may differ from those on your hard disk.
Copying Files: Press Next to begin copying files. If you selected drive A:\ as the destination you will be prompted for two disks during the copy operation.
Finish: At this point all files have been copied and you are ready to begin using NTFSDOS Professional.
Using NTFSDOS Professional
Once you have run Creator you are ready to boot into MS-DOS and begin using NTFSDOS Professional.
To start NTFSDOS Professional, simply execute it from the DOS command line or from your AUTOEXEC.BAT. NTFSDOS must be started from the directory that contains its support files. When NTFSDOS Professional starts it will scan all hard-disk partitions on your system looking for NTFS drives. It will mount each NTFS drive it finds with a unique DOS drive letter.
Once the NTFS drives are mounted you can treat them just as you do any other drive on your system.
NTFSDOS Professional indicates the locations of the partitions it mounts using the BIOS unit number and partition. The unit, starting at 80, indicates the physical hard disk, while partitions are numbered sequentially on each unit starting at 1. The screenshot indicates that NTFS volumes were found on the 3rd partition of the first disk, and the 1st partition of the second disk.
NTFSDOS Professional indicates the locations of the partitions it mounts using the BIOS unit number and partition. The unit, starting at 80, indicates the physical hard disk, while partitions are numbered sequentially on each unit starting at 1. The screenshot indicates that NTFS volumes were found on the 3rd partition of the first disk, and the 1st partition of the second disk.
You can specify your time zone by either using the /T command line option (“/T-5:00”) or by setting the “TZ” environment variable (“TZ=-5:00”). The general form of the time zone specification is [+|-]hh[:mm[:ss]] where hh is hours, mm is minutes and ss is seconds.
It may not be important to you to set the time zone information before using NTFSDOS Professional, but remember that file times will be reported to you up to 12 hours off their actual times, and when you boot back into Windows NT/2000/XP any files you have modified will similarly have incorrect time stamps.
NTFSDOS Professional supports long file names, just as Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP do. Long file name support was introduced to MS-DOS in version 7.0 (the version released with Windows 95), so if you use MS-DOS 7.0 you will see your Windows NT/2000/XP files with the regular names, rather than the 8.3 names. If you use an earlier version of MS-DOS you can still access your files, but you will need to use names like “PROGRA~1” rather than “Program Files”.
Many people believe that MS-DOS doesn’t support long file names at all, but that isn’t the case. It is the MS-DOS FAT file system driver that lacks support, rather than MS-DOS itself. When used with a file system that supports long file names MS-DOS handles them fine, as do MS-DOS applications that are written to take advantage of the support.
The result of this situation is that if you copy a file with a long file name from NTFS to a local FAT drive, you will lose the long file name. However, if you copy it to a network drive that supports long file names, or to another NTFS drive, the long file name will be preserved. Similarly, if you use an archiver (such as one of the ZIP compressors) that supports long file names on an NTFS drive, the long file name information will be preserved.
The performance of NTFSDOS Professional is surprisingly good, considering that it runs on MS-DOS. NTFSDOS Professional is a 32-bit protected mode program, which means that the code usually executes at the same rate as for programs running under Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98. NTFSDOS Professional is not as fast as Windows NT/2000/XP overall, however, because it must switch back to 16-bit mode in order to interface to MS-DOS and the BIOS, to access the disk, and to interact with other applications.
NTFSDOS Professional implements its own disk cache for use when accessing NTFS volumes. You can increase the size of the disk cache in order to increase performance by using the /C option (“/C2000” sets the cache to 2000KB). The cache uses a write-through policy, meaning that while data read from the disk is served from the cache (if available), data written to disk is always committed to disk immediately. This is done to minimize loss of data in case of a crash.
NTFSDOS Professional is capable of using up to 64MB of physical memory for caching and other operations.
You can change the default behavior of NTFSDOS Professional by specifying one or more command line options. NTFSPRO.EXE understands the following options: /L:<letter> Specify the set of drive letters you wish to NTFSDOS Professional to use when mounting NTFS volumes. Multiple drive letters may be listed, and each NTFS drive will be mounted according to its position in the sequence.
/C:<size> Allocates the specified amount of memory for the disk cache.
/T:[+|-]hh[:mm[:ss]] Specifies the local time zone in effect, for translating NTFS time stamps from Universal Coordinated Time to local time.
Using NTFSCHK
NTFSCHK is the second component of NTFSDOS Professional. NTFSCHK allows you to run the Windows NT/2000/XP CHKDSK program from MS-DOS.
You cannot run NTFSCHK while NTFSPRO is running. If you need to run NTFSCHK after starting NTFSPRO you must reboot before doing so.
You run NTFSCHK by simply specifying the drive you wish to check, for example “NTFSCHK E:”. By default NTFSCHK runs in read-only mode, just as the regular CHKDSK does. If you wish to have NTFSCHK repair errors it finds, use the /F (fix) option. If you wish to check all drives on the system you can specify “*” as the drive letter.If you aren’t certain what drives are available you can use the /S option to get a list of drives.
You can change the default behavior of NTFSDOS Professional by specifying one or more command line options. NTFSCHK.EXE understands the following options: [drive:] Specifies which volume to check. Use '*' to check all NTFS volumes.
/F By default NTFSCHK operates in read-only mode. This option tells NTFSCHK to repair any errors it finds.
/S Display a list of the NTFS drives on the system, without checking them. This is useful if you are not certain what drives are on the system.
/Q By default NTFSCHK will perform a thorough analysis of the disk every time it runs, just as CHKDSK does under Windows NT/2000/XP. This option tells NTFSCHK to test the disk only if it appears to be dirty (was dismounted uncleanly). This mimics the behavior the AUTOCHK service (run at boot time) which Windows NT/2000/XP features.
everything now leads a trail back to wininternals.
diskettes, bootable diskettes, or hard disk installations. You can use a single diskette on any number of systems, but note that the version of NTFS might vary from one machine to the next depending on the version of Windows NT/2000/XP installed.
When creating a bootable diskette you can add MS-DOS to the diskette either before or after installing NTFSDOS Professional on it. You can create a MS-DOS 7.0 boot diskette from within Windows 95/98 using either the “FORMAT /S A:” command or “SYS A:” from the command prompt.
The Creator program is installed in the program group where you installed NTFSDOS Professional. When run, it will take you through the following configuration screens:
Welcome screen: Click Next to proceed.
Locate Windows NT/2000/XP System Files: NTFSDOS Professional utilizes several files that are installed with Windows NT/2000/XP. You can select either the top level directory of your Windows NT/2000/XP installation (for example E:\WINNT) or a directory to which you have copied the necessary system files, and Creator will automatically locate the files for you.
Choose Destination Disk or Directory: Choose the disk or directory where you would like NTFSDOS Professional to be installed. This can be any directory on your hard disk or floppy disk including the root directory, but it should be a directory accessible by MS-DOS (i.e. a FAT or FAT32 volume). If you specify a location on drive A: then Creator will create two diskettes: The first diskette will contain the NTFSPRO.EXE executable and related files, which allows you to mount NTFS drives and access them. The second disk will contain the NTFSCHK.EXE executable and related files, which allows you to CHKDSK your NTFS drives. Creator will automatically compress all Windows NT/2000/XP system files when copying them to a diskette, so the names and sizes of files may differ from those on your hard disk.
Copying Files: Press Next to begin copying files. If you selected drive A:\ as the destination you will be prompted for two disks during the copy operation.
Finish: At this point all files have been copied and you are ready to begin using NTFSDOS Professional.
Using NTFSDOS Professional
Once you have run Creator you are ready to boot into MS-DOS and begin using NTFSDOS Professional.
To start NTFSDOS Professional, simply execute it from the DOS command line or from your AUTOEXEC.BAT. NTFSDOS must be started from the directory that contains its support files. When NTFSDOS Professional starts it will scan all hard-disk partitions on your system looking for NTFS drives. It will mount each NTFS drive it finds with a unique DOS drive letter.
Once the NTFS drives are mounted you can treat them just as you do any other drive on your system.
NTFSDOS Professional indicates the locations of the partitions it mounts using the BIOS unit number and partition. The unit, starting at 80, indicates the physical hard disk, while partitions are numbered sequentially on each unit starting at 1. The screenshot indicates that NTFS volumes were found on the 3rd partition of the first disk, and the 1st partition of the second disk.
NTFSDOS Professional indicates the locations of the partitions it mounts using the BIOS unit number and partition. The unit, starting at 80, indicates the physical hard disk, while partitions are numbered sequentially on each unit starting at 1. The screenshot indicates that NTFS volumes were found on the 3rd partition of the first disk, and the 1st partition of the second disk.
You can specify your time zone by either using the /T command line option (“/T-5:00”) or by setting the “TZ” environment variable (“TZ=-5:00”). The general form of the time zone specification is [+|-]hh[:mm[:ss]] where hh is hours, mm is minutes and ss is seconds.
It may not be important to you to set the time zone information before using NTFSDOS Professional, but remember that file times will be reported to you up to 12 hours off their actual times, and when you boot back into Windows NT/2000/XP any files you have modified will similarly have incorrect time stamps.
NTFSDOS Professional supports long file names, just as Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP do. Long file name support was introduced to MS-DOS in version 7.0 (the version released with Windows 95), so if you use MS-DOS 7.0 you will see your Windows NT/2000/XP files with the regular names, rather than the 8.3 names. If you use an earlier version of MS-DOS you can still access your files, but you will need to use names like “PROGRA~1” rather than “Program Files”.
Many people believe that MS-DOS doesn’t support long file names at all, but that isn’t the case. It is the MS-DOS FAT file system driver that lacks support, rather than MS-DOS itself. When used with a file system that supports long file names MS-DOS handles them fine, as do MS-DOS applications that are written to take advantage of the support.
The result of this situation is that if you copy a file with a long file name from NTFS to a local FAT drive, you will lose the long file name. However, if you copy it to a network drive that supports long file names, or to another NTFS drive, the long file name will be preserved. Similarly, if you use an archiver (such as one of the ZIP compressors) that supports long file names on an NTFS drive, the long file name information will be preserved.
The performance of NTFSDOS Professional is surprisingly good, considering that it runs on MS-DOS. NTFSDOS Professional is a 32-bit protected mode program, which means that the code usually executes at the same rate as for programs running under Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98. NTFSDOS Professional is not as fast as Windows NT/2000/XP overall, however, because it must switch back to 16-bit mode in order to interface to MS-DOS and the BIOS, to access the disk, and to interact with other applications.
NTFSDOS Professional implements its own disk cache for use when accessing NTFS volumes. You can increase the size of the disk cache in order to increase performance by using the /C option (“/C2000” sets the cache to 2000KB). The cache uses a write-through policy, meaning that while data read from the disk is served from the cache (if available), data written to disk is always committed to disk immediately. This is done to minimize loss of data in case of a crash.
NTFSDOS Professional is capable of using up to 64MB of physical memory for caching and other operations.
You can change the default behavior of NTFSDOS Professional by specifying one or more command line options. NTFSPRO.EXE understands the following options: /L:<letter> Specify the set of drive letters you wish to NTFSDOS Professional to use when mounting NTFS volumes. Multiple drive letters may be listed, and each NTFS drive will be mounted according to its position in the sequence.
/C:<size> Allocates the specified amount of memory for the disk cache.
/T:[+|-]hh[:mm[:ss]] Specifies the local time zone in effect, for translating NTFS time stamps from Universal Coordinated Time to local time.
Using NTFSCHK
NTFSCHK is the second component of NTFSDOS Professional. NTFSCHK allows you to run the Windows NT/2000/XP CHKDSK program from MS-DOS.
You cannot run NTFSCHK while NTFSPRO is running. If you need to run NTFSCHK after starting NTFSPRO you must reboot before doing so.
You run NTFSCHK by simply specifying the drive you wish to check, for example “NTFSCHK E:”. By default NTFSCHK runs in read-only mode, just as the regular CHKDSK does. If you wish to have NTFSCHK repair errors it finds, use the /F (fix) option. If you wish to check all drives on the system you can specify “*” as the drive letter.If you aren’t certain what drives are available you can use the /S option to get a list of drives.
You can change the default behavior of NTFSDOS Professional by specifying one or more command line options. NTFSCHK.EXE understands the following options: [drive:] Specifies which volume to check. Use '*' to check all NTFS volumes.
/F By default NTFSCHK operates in read-only mode. This option tells NTFSCHK to repair any errors it finds.
/S Display a list of the NTFS drives on the system, without checking them. This is useful if you are not certain what drives are on the system.
/Q By default NTFSCHK will perform a thorough analysis of the disk every time it runs, just as CHKDSK does under Windows NT/2000/XP. This option tells NTFSCHK to test the disk only if it appears to be dirty (was dismounted uncleanly). This mimics the behavior the AUTOCHK service (run at boot time) which Windows NT/2000/XP features.
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What's wrong with the NTFS4DOS???It contains the FULL read/write access to any FAT32 and any NTFS partitions...