Can you read a ntfs harddrives contents by booting in to a
dos prompt from a boot disk, or can it only be read when the
os has been started.
Someone said that the files can only be read if the os is running
GingerFreak
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Can you read a ntfs harddrives contents by booting in to a
dos prompt from a boot disk, or can it only be read when the
os has been started.
Someone said that the files can only be read if the os is running
GingerFreak
If you are booting to DOS you'll need a program called NTFSDOS. If this is a Windows 2000 machine, the recovery console will allow you to read the files as well.
You can download it from here.
The eval version will only allow you to view files. You can't copy etc.
http://www.systeminternals.com
They make some brilliant products.
I suggest you check out Filemon and Regmon.
unless you load a special tsr, the answer is no. dos by itself is not capable of reading an ntfs volume, i speak from experience (i was curios)
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Originally posted by GingerFreak
Can you read a ntfs harddrives contents by booting in to a
dos prompt from a boot disk, or can it only be read when the
os has been started.
Someone said that the files can only be read if the os is running
GingerFreak
there is a program called readntfs- dont where to find it now - i no longer use ntfs - but a search of the net should help =)