It’s a long story…
Basically, my WinXP system cratered, hard. I have a lot of files on its HD that I would like to salvage, but it is in NTFS. My only other PC is a Win98 machine. Can I somehow get the Win98 machine to see the NTFS hard drive? I have it installed on it as a slave.
You can, but not easily. There are software packages out there, and I think there’s a free one available that will let you access the drive as read only.
It would be easier if you could find a windows 2000 or an XP box to use temporarily.
Partition Magic 8.0 will do what you want.
In terms of data integrity you might be better off to get a new 120 gig hard drive for $ 90.00 or so and re-install XP on it then slave the NTFS drive to the new XP master drive.
NTFS for Windows 98. Freeware.
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Gah. I have to get the NT config files for it to read an NT drive. Unfortunately, the drive the files are on (XP directory) are on the drive it can’t read until its installed. What a catch 22.
Any ideas?
Try NTFSDOS 3.0.
NTFSDOS Professional Edition (full read/write access from DOS)
If the NTFS partition is corrupted or cannot be accessed, try :
Thanks guys, I really appreciate your help. However, I am totally helpless in a DOS enviroment. Not a big deal though as I can just email the NT DLL and SYS files that NTFS for 98 needs from my office WinNT machine.
Thanks again, I’ll get this licked!
It worked! I got my NTFS files from my office machine. Works like a charm. THanks a lot.
Cool. It’s read-only access, but it’s better than nothing.
That’s all I needed anyhow, just to salvage my files. I’ll be doing an XP reformat when I get my new system together.