What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?

Bob

"Bob Wright" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?
>
> Bob


www.bootdisc.com has one..


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What are you trying to accomplish? You can use your Windows XP CD and
boot to the Recovery Console, if you intend on doing this with DOS you
will need an NTFS reader for DOS. If you want to service a non-booting
Windows XP installation you are best to use the Recovery Console,
other than copying files there isn't much that you can do with DOS to
repair an NT operating system.

John

Bob Wright wrote:

> What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?
>
> Bob

Create a Bart PE CD

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"Bob Wright" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?
>
> Bob

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:05:04 -0600, Bob Wright <(E-Mail Removed)>
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> What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?



There are third-party programs that can do this, such as NTFS4DOS.

However, why do you want to do this? It may not be a good idea at all.
What do you want to do from DOS?

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On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:18:42 -0500, "Mike Hall - MVP"
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> "Bob Wright" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?
> >
> > Bob
>
>
> www.bootdisc.com has one..


That's a typo, I assume. Plato's web site is spelled www.bootdisk.com
(with a "k," not a "c").

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"Randem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Create a Bart PE CD
>
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> "Bob Wright" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?
>>
>> Bob
>
>

I too would like to see some details from Bob Wright, to see how
much his problem has in common with mine (as in my thread
"Where are the hard disk drivers?"). I'm trying to construct a
BartPE CD, but have yet to build one that can find my NTFS C:
partition, or for that matter the drive that it's on. Just including
the driver files identified by Device Manager as being those for
my hard drive hasn't worked, but just recently I penetrated in
the BartPE documentation to the instructions for including drivers,
which require more than simple-minded inclusion of driver files --
they require building subfolders for each driver including .inf and
apparently other files. I plough on when I have the time.

The moral of that rambling paragraph being, building a BartPE
CD is a distinctly nontrivial task for someone not experienced
in this area. IMHO. IMHNXO (non-experienced).

My system is XP Media Center Edition. I'd like to know what
Bob's is. And my aim is to build an Acronis True Image 2009
rescue CD that works. Again, I'd like to know what Bob's aim
is.

"Ken Blake, MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:18:42 -0500, "Mike Hall - MVP"
> <mikehall@remove_mvps.com> wrote:
>
>> "Bob Wright" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?
>> >
>> > Bob
>>
>>
>> www.bootdisc.com has one..
>
>
> That's a typo, I assume. Plato's web site is spelled www.bootdisk.com
> (with a "k," not a "c").
>
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> Please Reply to the Newsgroup


It didn't look right as I typed it.. :-)


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Well, you could also download a Linux System Rescue CD and look at the NTFS
partition that way without having to include drivers for the most part.

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"Anthony Buckland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Randem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Create a Bart PE CD
>>
>> --
>> Randem Systems
>> Your Installation Specialist
>> The Top Inno Setup Script Generator
>> http://www.randem.com/innoscript.html
>> http://www.rndem.com/installerproblems.html
>> http://www.randem.com/vistainstalls.html
>> http://www.financialtrainingservices.org
>>
>>
>> "Bob Wright" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> What do I need to make a boot disk that can read an NTFS partition?
>>>
>>> Bob
>>
>>
>
> I too would like to see some details from Bob Wright, to see how
> much his problem has in common with mine (as in my thread
> "Where are the hard disk drivers?"). I'm trying to construct a
> BartPE CD, but have yet to build one that can find my NTFS C:
> partition, or for that matter the drive that it's on. Just including
> the driver files identified by Device Manager as being those for
> my hard drive hasn't worked, but just recently I penetrated in
> the BartPE documentation to the instructions for including drivers,
> which require more than simple-minded inclusion of driver files --
> they require building subfolders for each driver including .inf and
> apparently other files. I plough on when I have the time.
>
> The moral of that rambling paragraph being, building a BartPE
> CD is a distinctly nontrivial task for someone not experienced
> in this area. IMHO. IMHNXO (non-experienced).
>
> My system is XP Media Center Edition. I'd like to know what
> Bob's is. And my aim is to build an Acronis True Image 2009
> rescue CD that works. Again, I'd like to know what Bob's aim
> is.
>

"Randem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Well, you could also download a Linux System Rescue CD and look at the
> NTFS partition that way without having to include drivers for the most
> part.
> ...
> [I] wrote ...
>> I too would like to see some details from Bob Wright, to see how
>> much his problem has in common with mine (as in my thread
>> "Where are the hard disk drivers?"). I'm trying to construct a
>> BartPE CD, but have yet to build one that can find my NTFS C:
>> partition, or for that matter the drive that it's on. Just including
>> the driver files identified by Device Manager as being those for
>> my hard drive hasn't worked, but just recently I penetrated in
>> the BartPE documentation to the instructions for including drivers,
>> which require more than simple-minded inclusion of driver files --
>> they require building subfolders for each driver including .inf and
>> apparently other files. I plough on when I have the time.
>>
>> The moral of that rambling paragraph being, building a BartPE
>> CD is a distinctly nontrivial task for someone not experienced
>> in this area. IMHO. IMHNXO (non-experienced).
>>
>> My system is XP Media Center Edition. I'd like to know what
>> Bob's is. And my aim is to build an Acronis True Image 2009
>> rescue CD that works. Again, I'd like to know what Bob's aim
>> is.
>>
>
> ...

Unfortunately, I have to build the CD myself since it has to be
able to run Acronis True Image 2009, via the plugin they supply
for such a purpose. TI 2009 includes a facility for creating a
rescue CD, which is unable to find my hard drive; in this case,
Linux is less the solution than the problem -- to quote from the
TI forum, "TI 2009 uses a different Linux kernel and different
drivers than [an earlier TI version]. Most likely, the drivers for
your system are not correct or not included."