Re: MS DOS Startup Disks ... When you boot from a DOS disk you are cannot see an NTFS partition - DOS ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Re: Windows XP (SP2) will not boot ... If you installed XP in an NTFS partition then booting with a DOS boot disk... You could also boot from the XP CD and do a repair install. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility)
Re: Cant copy a file on hard disk ... Accessing an NTFS partition from DOS is difficult but not impossible. ... Sysinternals, acquired by Micro$oft in the last year or two, sold an NTFS DOS... I don't think it's possible to boot to DOS with Windows 2000. ... (alt.sys.pc-clone.dell)
Re: Installing a bootable OS on External Hard Drive ... It is free and will create a bootable CD (Windows or DOS) so my reasoning is that it may well work on a USB-HDD as well. ... XP won't boot from a USB drive without modification, but there are plenty of step-by-step guides to doing so. ... Ideally I`d like to boot to DOS and found this, someone used IOMEGA drivers to boot his WD USB drive; ... Now I`d have to locate the aspiehci.sys and guest.exe mentioned here but apart from that its just standard DOS boot files, the only problem is that I`m running an NTFS partition on the external drive and also the main C:\ drive so I guess they wouldn't be available in DOS and it probably wouldn't boot these files off an NTFS partition, ideally I`d like to be able to run the Acronis Recovery software after booting to DOS. ... (uk.comp.homebuilt)
Re: How to format FAT32 in Windows XP? ... system allows me to access command prompt at bootup.... When you boot to DOS, it can't see an NTFS partition.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
