Re: NTFSDOS freeware problem

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From: young (gnex_at_user.com)
Date: 02/07/04 

Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:43:32 -0800

Eric, hi once more ,

Ok here is the latest. I followed your directions after the last
post. My answers to your questions will be imbedded in your latest
set of info and questions.On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:21:35 -0500, "Eric
McG" <dontbother@att.net> wrote:

>Yes, that helps a lot.
>
>First, you should not have used the contents of the autoexec.bat file that I
>posted since it contained line numbers. I only posted it that way so that
>you would see exactly where to insert the command.
Ok I went back to the original autoexec.bat that I had developed from
my wife's pc and inserted the ntfsdos.exe command along with the /L:
ghi.
>
>Second, you must not be using a standard Win98 boot disc if the autoexec.bat
>file was different. In order for us to be on the same wavelength, use Method
>1 found in this article to make new one (but do not write protect the disc):
Since the W2K system's hardware is somewhat different than the
standard Win98SE setup certain commands do not work. For example, the
system has a second IDE controller and a separate SCSI controller both
of which are in PCI slots not built into the ASUS P4S8X mother board.
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=187632
>
>Edit the autoexec.bat and add the ntfsdos command line.
>
>Add the ntfsdos.exe file to the floppy disc.
>
>When you boot up the Win2K system with this disc, select CD-ROM support.
Since all of my cd devices are connected to the Promise controller the
cd rom support commands do not work. But that does not matter since
our autoexec.bat file requests ntfsdos to assign the letters to the
three hard drives as g, h and i.

>
>You should then be able to boot up and have read-only access to your NTFS
>partitions....but even if that's successful, it will not solve your
>problems. If I remember correctly you were trying to delete some files and
>folders that were inadvertently restored from a Win98 backup by mistake.
Actually the files were not restored by mistake. The system setup is
my W2K system is the "server" and all systems are backed up on to the
D drive of this system. We have two desktops and a notebook. The
systems are all linked via the Netgear router.

When my wife encountered a problem in her system we were unable to
restore the required files across the network. With a fried we
devised a solution to restore the required files to a temporary folder
on my system and then do a cleanup on her system and finally copy the
required files back to her system. The goof was to do the restore to
my c drive rather than the d or e drives.

>
>If that's still your goal, I have to ask the obvious: Why can't you delete
>the files and folders in Windows, using Windows Explorer?
After all was cleaned up on her PC I wanted to delete the temporary
folder with all of the files. I attempted to delete with Windows 2K's
explorer. About 80 percent of the files were deleted. However, there
were about 15 files in five different folders that the system would
not allow to be deleted. For each of these files the message returned
was "access denied" This was the reason for the attempts with
NTFSDOS. During the battle I go a buddy to bring over his copy of
NTFSPRO which allows for the writing or removal. However, no matter
whether using the read only version of the read/write version all
cases did not see the "c drive".
>
>If you really must delete these items outside of Windows GUI, you can use
>the Windows 2000 Recovery Console (with a few tweaks) to do so. Let me know
>if you want to proceed in this manner.

Another friend got me through the install of the recovery console when
he got fed up trying to get to the c drive via NTFSDOS or NTFSPRO.
However, what was supposed to be a rather straight forward process
took a bit of work since the standard recovery console procedures did
not work. It seems that a number of commands or procedures that are
supposed to be in one particular panel were not available even though
they were on the computer. Can not recall the particular panel or the
commands he worked me through but we did get the files off the system.
The files were in Adobe folders, Office folders and Internet Explorer
folders.

We still have not figured out how to get the missing
command/procedures into the needed panel. I would like to determine
how to fix W2K Recovery Console so that the future screw ups can be
fixed in a more straight forward manner. If you would not mind
providing the assistance i would really appreciate it.

Thanks.

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