Re: NTFS - 16 Bit Dos

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I tried with BartPE but found that it hangs, i guess the reason for this is
the fact is that when its trying to intialise the hard drive, it cant and
therefore stops to work. unless you know another reason why it wouldnt work.
Your suggestions are good though, keep them coming if you have any more. :-)

--
Sean McBrien


"BC" wrote:

> Besides that Linux thing, you can also try creating
> a BartPE CD: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder
>
> In either case, you create a bootable CD that will
> give you both access to NTFS and FAT32 partitions,
> as well letting you copy files off the troubled
> drive in question over the network.
>
> When replacing the drive, use FAT32 -- the security
> benefits of NTFS are marginal and are greatly
> outweighed by the much greater hassle of trouble-
> shooting serious Windows problems and recovering
> data from failing disks. While NTFS is suppose to
> be better than FAT32 in protecting the integrity of
> data, in real life situations where the hard drive
> is being to fail, Windows 2K/XP will just blue
> screen you and you need to get the data off as
> quickly as possible.
>
> -BC
>
>
.

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