Re: ms-dos

From: Plato (|_at_|.|)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: 30 Apr 2004 00:07:10 -0500

David Candy wrote:
>
> You have to format a floppy, tick the box in the dialog, then boot from floppy. Dos can't read disks with NTFS.

True. You need a free third party app to read/copy ntfs files after a
real boot to dos. 

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