If you want to read the files on your NTFS partiton (used by Windows NT or Windows 2000), I suggest to use this driver: http://www.drdos.net/files/ntfsdos.exe. A few people told me that they had problems using this driver with DR DOS (look at Lineo DR-DOS (4.4) for more detailed information).

Not with standard DOS, however there is a product called NTFSDos which enables a user to read from a NTFS partition. The homepage for this utility is http://www.sysinternals.com.

Usually a NTFS partition can be deleted using FDISK (delete non-DOS partition), however this will not work if the NTFS partition is in the extended partition. You can delete an NTFS partition using Disk Administrator, by selecting the partition and pressing DEL (as long as it is not the system/boot partition).

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From the command line enter the command convert d: /fs:ntfs . This command is one way only, and you cannot convert an NTFS partition to FAT. If the FAT partition is the system partition then the conversion will take place on the next reboot. After the conversion File Permissions are set to Full Control for everyone, where as if you install directly to NTFS the permissions are set on a stricter basis.

A simple conversion is not possible, and the only course of action is to backup all the data on the drive, reformat the disk to FAT and then restore your data backup.

When you right click on a file in Explorer and select properties (or select Properties from the File menu) you are presented with a dialog box telling you information such as size, ownership etc. If the file/directory is on a NTFS partition there will be a security tab, and within that dialog, a permissions button. If you press that button you can grant access to users/groups on the resource at various levels.

Win95.CIH virus will not be active under Windows NT environment. If you are having Win95.CIH infected programs under Windows NT download Protector Plus For Windows NT or CleanCIH.EXE to clean the infected files. Refer question 4 above for more details.

CSD do not recommend either partition type as being correct in all cases. Which partition type you want depends on your requirements. The following points may be useful in determining whether you want to stay with FAT32 or convert to NTFS. Somewhat more efficient than FAT32 in many operations (however, it has extra work to do in maintaining the security information which cancels out some of the efficiency improvements). Not supported for installation into.

NTFS is an abbreviation for New Technology Filesystem. NT because it was originally used in Windows NT and a filesystem is just how the computer stores files on disk. Different operating system, stores files in different ways.

This is why FAT volumes larger than 511MB are not recommended due to the amount of potentially wasted space due to the 16KB and above cluster size. NTFS better balances the trade off between disk defragmentation due to smaller cluster size and wasted space due to a large cluster size.

Take the size of the partition and divide by 100. If this is less than 1,048,576 use 1,048,576, if greater than 4,194,304 use 4,194,304 Add to the number calculated the total number of files and directories multiplied by 1280. You can work out the total number of files and directories using the dir /s command at the base of the partition, e.g.

Yes . Idem can also replicate files and folders security information and attributes. You can choose to sync permissions or not. Yes . Idem synchronizes Mac files on Windows volumes and can even optionnaly replace with a dash the Windows forbidden characters in Mac filenames when moving Mac files

Fedora kernel has module for read and write access to the ntfs file system, that should be enabled, now the easy way for installed kernel is to install the kernel version ntfs modules get the lates fedora core 5 kernel ntfs moudle from here or use the yum to install the module:

bull;Some people report FAT is faster than NTFS; others report that NTFS is faster than FAT. Compare your system specs and needs with the advantages and disadvantages of each file system.•Comfort level is important -- if you are apprehensive about using NTFS, then do not put your important files on it! You can always convert from FAT to NTFS later. Try NTFS on a spare partition first, if possible.

BIG. NTFS supports files up to 263 bytes in size. NTFS Volumes can be up to 263 clusters and each cluster can be up to 64KiB long. This gives NTFS an upper limit of approximately 500 trillion gigabytes.

You can use the conv=text/binary/auto, umask=nnn, uid=nnn, and gid=nnn options to control the automatic line-ending conversion, permissions and ownerships of the files in the DOS file system as they appear under Linux. If you mount your DOS file system by putting it in your /etc/fstab, you can record the options (comma-separated) there, instead of defaults. Alternatively, you can use mtools, available in both binary and source form on the FTP sites. See Where Are the Linux FTP Archives?.

In Linux disks are named hda, hdb for the first two disk on the first IDE controller and hdc, hdd for the third and fourth disks. SCSI disks are named sda, sdb, etc, in the order they are discovered.

One kinky problem that almost got me was when I tried to disklabel my second drive in order to use the DOS partition on it, and use the rest as swap for BSD (FreeBSD-1.0 Eps, SCSI drive on an AHA1542B, to be exact). The DOS partition was visible from UNIX, but *not* from DOS. What I tried to do: Using PFDISK (from DOS), make one big DOS partition at the start and use the rest for a BSD partition (type 165).