NTFS boot floppy?

[Dana Scott Kaufman]

Is there a way to create a boot disk/set of disks that will allow me to
access a NTFS drive? I have one partition and it is NTFS. I am worried
about NT crashing and not being able to remove files?

I saw a knowledgebase article that told how to make boot disks that
start the boot and then read system files off of your HD. I would like
an all floppy boot. Is this possible?

Dana Scott Kaufman
Apogee Information Systems

[John Dean]

There is a little utility that you can get called NTFSDOS. This is a neat
little exe you can put in the autoexec.bat file of your boot disk and it
will mount any ntfs drives on the system. I don't remember where I found
it. If you can't, let me know, and I can email it to you.

--
John Dean
RTC Technologies
Microsoft Solution Provider
john...@execpc.com
"The only stupid question is the one not asked."

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[Malcolm Reitz]

Dana Scott Kaufman <dkau...@apogeeis.com> wrote:

>Is there a way to create a boot disk/set of disks that will allow me to
>access a NTFS drive? I have one partition and it is NTFS. I am worried
>about NT crashing and not being able to remove files?
>
>I saw a knowledgebase article that told how to make boot disks that
>start the boot and then read system files off of your HD. I would like
>an all floppy boot. Is this possible?
>
>Dana Scott Kaufman
>Apogee Information Systems

I don't believe you can boot NT entirely from floppies. There is a DOS
utility called NTFSDOS that will let you read an NTFS partition from
DOS. I don't remember the url, but I found it on a link from
www.indirect.com/www/ceridgac/ntsite.html.

Malcolm Reitz
---------------------
Brown & Root, Inc.
mre...@b-r.com

[Randall S. Cohen]

Dana Scott Kaufman wrote:
>
> Is there a way to create a boot disk/set of disks that will allow me to
> access a NTFS drive? I have one partition and it is NTFS. I am worried
> about NT crashing and not being able to remove files?
>
> I saw a knowledgebase article that told how to make boot disks that
> start the boot and then read system files off of your HD. I would like
> an all floppy boot. Is this possible?
>
> Dana Scott Kaufman
> Apogee Information Systems

Also you could just install NT using the 3 boot disks. This allows you
to install NT to an NTFS partition. Then install NT to a new directory,
say nttemp. You can then repair any damage, copy files, or add other
files. Once the repairs are made and you have verified that NT boots
properly you can remove the nttemp directory and remove the new entries
made in the boot.ini

-rsc

[Patrick vHAlkema]

Dana

> Dana Scott Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to create a boot disk/set of disks that will allow me to
> > access a NTFS drive? I have one partition and it is NTFS. I am
worried
> > about NT crashing and not being able to remove files?
> >
> > I saw a knowledgebase article that told how to make boot disks that
> > start the boot and then read system files off of your HD. I would like
> > an all floppy boot. Is this possible?
> >
> > Dana Scott Kaufman

There is a freeware utility (called NTFSDOS I Think) that you can put on a
BOOTABLE DOS floppy and it will let you read(only) any/all NTFS partitions.
Try www.ntinternals.com

Pat.

[Aaron Martin]

When installing NT Workstaion on my PC, I get to a point
where the install load a "scsi floppy" driver.. I assume
because of my 2940 pci adaptec scsi cards thats in... But
I don't have any SCSI floppy connetions on the card... -- anyways..
the install just locks up.. and I'm hozed.. If I remove the card,
I can install on my IDE drive.. then replace the scsi card..
no scsi drives are seen... so I add a scsi driver.. then on
NT - reboot.. Its completely locked again..
Anyone know a solution??
-- Please WRITE me @ ama...@texas.net
Thanks,
Aaron