19 Jan
2005
19 Jan
'05
2:22 a.m.
>>>> "John" == John Foust
<jfoust(a)threedee.com> writes:
John> At 03:20 PM 1/18/2005, Fred Cisin wrote:
> In their more recent operating systems, they are
also completely
> unclear on the concept of "floppy boot". If one of the system
> files ON THE HARD DISK is bad, it CAN NOT be booted. What else
> can I boot an NT machine with that can read and write an NTFS
> partition?
John> Any one of the Linux-based boot CDs that handle NTFS? Or the
John> Sysinternals tools that handle NTFS? Or a second machine that
John> can still read the hard disk, if you transplant it?
Linux NTFS has an "experimental" read/write capability for NTFS, but
that only works with NTFS V4 -- with WinNT. It doesn't handle the
Win2k or later flavors of NTFS. Or at least, it didn't last I looked
(which I think was Fedora 1).
paul