NTFS Dos -- Preseve long file names?

[Machine Messiah]

Hi.
I've made a mess of my XP machine (long story) and need to move some
files to a fat32 hd before I reformat. I have NTFS Reader for DOS
http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm
Unfortunately it's renaming all my files to something dos compatible,
thus wrecking alot of them. Is there anything free that preserves long
file names? I've seen some expensive shareware progs that claim to.
Are there any freeware progs that will let me move files from 1 ntfs
drive to another? I have 3 ntfs hds on the XP machine.
Thanks.

 

[Recluseman35]

Hi.
I've made a mess of my XP machine (long story) and need to move some
files to a fat32 hd before I reformat. I have NTFS Reader for DOS
http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm
Unfortunately it's renaming all my files to something dos compatible,
thus wrecking alot of them. Is there anything free that preserves
long file names? I've seen some expensive shareware progs that claim
to. Are there any freeware progs that will let me move files from 1
ntfs drive to another? I have 3 ntfs hds on the XP machine.
Thanks.

free PC INSPECTORT File Recovery at

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

will preserve long file names
I used it recently with my "messed up" XP system, with good results
Good luck

 

[Machine Messiah]

free PC INSPECTORT File Recovery at

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

will preserve long file names
I used it recently with my "messed up" XP system, with good results
Good luck

Hmm...
Looks interesting but I can't boot Windows on that machine and my pc's
aren't networked. I need something I can run from a bootable floopy or
cd. Thanks very much anyway.

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Machine Messiah wrote in

I can't boot Windows on that machine and my pc's
aren't networked. I need something I can run from a bootable floopy or
cd

<http://people.freenet.de/herbert.reichardt/download.htm>

quote:
LBACK Longfilename Backup Restore

Program to backup and restore long filenames. Mainly useful for
full Backups of Windows. The tool is specially designed
to work with japanese and chinese Windows or other versions that
fits not in code page 850 (eg. russian, greek, turkish).

Based on Odi's DOS tools for long file names http://www.odi.ch

Download the converter utility (src and dos exe 100k) here:
lback.zip
<http://people.freenet.de/herbert.reichardt/lback.zip>

Update 2002/09/27 Version 0.22 (for WINXP): lback Version 0.22
<http://people.freenet.de/herbert.reichardt/lback_022.zip>

/quote

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Conor]

Hmm...
Looks interesting but I can't boot Windows on that machine and my pc's
aren't networked. I need something I can run from a bootable floopy or
cd. Thanks very much anyway.

Two options:
1) Convert the NTFS partition to FAT32 using the trial version of
Bootit! (creates a bootable CD with the partition app opn) Just
remember NOT to install BootIT to the HDD when prompted.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

2) Use Knoppix...a Linux distro that runs entirely off a CDROM. Boot
with that, copy the files to wherever you want and even
repartition/convert the HDD.

http://www.knoppix.org/

 

[3c273]

You could use any one of the "Live" linux cds to read from NTFS and write to
FAT32. I would reccomend Knoppix as it has excellent hardware support.
www.knoppix.org.
Louis

 

[H-Man]

Hi.
I've made a mess of my XP machine (long story) and need to move some
files to a fat32 hd before I reformat. I have NTFS Reader for DOS
http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm
Unfortunately it's renaming all my files to something dos compatible,
thus wrecking alot of them. Is there anything free that preserves long
file names? I've seen some expensive shareware progs that claim to.
Are there any freeware progs that will let me move files from 1 ntfs
drive to another? I have 3 ntfs hds on the XP machine.
Thanks.

Look into BartPE Builder. If you have access to a Windows XP machine with a
CD burner and an XP Cd, you can build a bootable Windows disk that will
read and write NTFS and FAT32. This product has heped me clean up systems
on many occasions. I highly recommend it.

Maybe someone can upload a completed PE ISO for you to burn, I'd do it, but
I don't have any space to host it.

 

[Howard Schwartz]

Hi.
I've made a mess of my XP machine (long story) and need to move some
files to a fat32 hd before I reformat. I have NTFS Reader for DOS
http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm
Unfortunately it's renaming all my files to something dos compatible,
thus wrecking alot of them. Is there anything free that preserves long
file names? I've seen some expensive shareware progs that claim to.
Are there any freeware progs that will let me move files from 1 ntfs
drive to another? I have 3 ntfs hds on the XP machine.
Thanks.

I am not sure from your comments and follow what combination of file
systems and OSs you are moving from and to. You also mentioned a floppy.

Anyway, there is a dos device driver, free, called either lfndos, or
doslfn that provides the longfilename interface for dos, enabling it
to display long filenames with various programs.

Another piece of freeware,
LFNDir v1.02 (C) Allan H¢iberg 1998
(program itsels is called ldir)

Will search a file, directory, or tree of directories and make a
list of short and long filenames for each file that has both.
It is a dos program that will run in a dos box, or dos on a floppy
that runs in protected mode via a program like cwsdpmi.

When transferring files where longfile names are a problem, I
run ldir and pipe it through a short editing script (sed)
that creates a batch file renaming each short name to its
corresponding long name on the target disk or partition.

For instance, I can use the laplink type program, fdisk
(the old free short filename, dos version of fdisk) and
transfer files from, say windows 98 to windows XP on
another disk. fdisk transfers the files, but names them
with short names. Then I simply run my batch file on
XP to restore the long file names.

ldir produces a list like this:

longfi~1.exe = longfilename.exe

my batch file converts such entries to:

rename longfi~1.exe longfilename.exe

In addition to ldir, the program, locate.com can create
a list of files, giving the short and long filenames
like those above. Indeed, starting in a dos box, the
dir command can do this, but in a much more awkward
way. And it includes files that do not have longfilenames
to worry about.

 

[Dusty T Ratt]

snip
I am not sure from your comments and follow what combination of file
systems and OSs you are moving from and to. You also mentioned a floppy.

Anyway, there is a dos device driver, free, called either lfndos, or
doslfn that provides the longfilename interface for dos, enabling it
to display long filenames with various programs.

Another piece of freeware,
LFNDir v1.02 (C) Allan H¢iberg 1998
(program itsels is called ldir)

Will search a file, directory, or tree of directories and make a
list of short and long filenames for each file that has both.
It is a dos program that will run in a dos box, or dos on a floppy
that runs in protected mode via a program like cwsdpmi.

When transferring files where longfile names are a problem, I
run ldir and pipe it through a short editing script (sed)
that creates a batch file renaming each short name to its
corresponding long name on the target disk or partition.

For instance, I can use the laplink type program, fdisk
(the old free short filename, dos version of fdisk) and
transfer files from, say windows 98 to windows XP on
another disk. fdisk transfers the files, but names them
with short names. Then I simply run my batch file on
XP to restore the long file names.

ldir produces a list like this:

longfi~1.exe = longfilename.exe

my batch file converts such entries to:

rename longfi~1.exe longfilename.exe

wow, thanks very much.
The problem has been solved, no need to reformat >whew!<