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5. New Technology FileSystem (NTFS)

5.1 Accessing NTFS from DOS (NTFSDOS.EXE)

NTFSDOS.EXE is a network file system redirector for DOS/Windows that is able to recognize and mount NTFS drives for transparent access. It makes NTFS drives appear indistinguishable from standard FAT drives, providing the ability to navigate, view and execute programs on them from DOS or from Windows, including from the Windows 3.1 File Manager and Windows 95 Explorer.

5.2 Accessing NTFS from DOS (ntpwd)

NTPwd contains command line tools to access NTFS partition, it'a a Dos port of the driver used by Linux. It contains too a little utility to change NT password.

5.3 Accessing NTFS from OS/2

NTFS-OS2 is a package that will allow OS/2 to seamlessly access Windows NT NTFS formatted partitions from OS/2 as if they were standard OS/2 drive letters. The ultimate aim of this package is to be able to use the NTFS file system as a replacement of FAT or HPFS.

5.4 Accessing NTFS from Linux

This fs is also part of Linux Kernel (2.1.x and higher).

5.5 Accessing NTFS from FreeBSD

Driver is in current source tree, so no more versions will be placed on the web. Version for 3.1 will be commited soon.

5.6 Accessing NTFS from BeOS

5.7 Accessing NTFS from BeOS (another)

This is a ALPHA version of a NTFS driver for BeOS. It is not the most polished thing in the world, but every release that author puts out is more stable than the last. He just implemented compressed file reads, so be careful with those. He also finally worked with NTFS 5 volumes, and managed to root out a few bugs.

Authow now works for Be Inc, so you will not see his NTFS and ext2 filesystem support updated on the web much more. The drivers will be pulled into future BeOS releases.

5.8 Repairing NTFS using NTFSDOS Tools

If you require limited write access for disaster recovery purposes, NTFSDOS Tools may help. NTFSDOS Tools is an add-on package available for sale at the Winternals Web site . It consists of two utilties, NTFSCopy and NTFSRen, that work with NTFSDOS 2.0R+. NTFSCopy allows you to overwrite a NTFSfile with a fresh copy in cases where one has become corrupt and is preventing NT from booting. NTFSRen will give a specified file a new name. This is useful in cases where a new driver or application is installed and is preventing NT from booting. With NTFSRen an offending file can be renamed so that NT will not load it.

5.9 Repairing NTFS using NTRecover

If you have a dead system that you would like to recover data from or repair, and you have access to a second NT machine, you may want to try NTRecover. A read-only NTRecover is available for free download, and with it you can access the drives on the dead system from the working system using native NT file systems and uiltities. In fact, to NT the drives appear as if they were local drives on the working system. With the read/write version, you can copy/edit/delete files.

5.10 Repairing "fault tolerant" NTFS disks using FTEdit

If you have a Windows NT Workstation or Server configured for fault tolerant (FT) partitions (such as stripes with parity and volume sets), and those partitions are inaccessible and appear in Disk Administrator as type Unknown, you can possibly make them accessible again by using the utility FTEDIT.


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