NTFS and DOS question

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 13, 2003, 12:08 PM

Guys im thinking about changing over to NTFS. I had it once I didnt enjoy it because I couldnt format in DOS i booted with a plain 98/ME disk i know thats the problem. I had to use partition magic to change it over to FAT 32 again and it was a hassle.

I had 2 drives and one was FAT 32, and this drive contained my raw data (music,movies,games,pictures,documents) so in DOS when i type format C:, it formatted the D: because regular DOS only reckons FAT 32, so i accidently formatted it and lost my stuf i was so angry! So I want to be able to format a NTFS drive in DOS. Is there a different boot disk i use? I know NTFS has lots of advantages I wanna switch over...

~~craig588~~ · Aug 13, 2003, 12:14 PM

You can use NTFSdos, not only will it allow dos to read NTFS drives, but its one of windows' biggest security holes.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 13, 2003, 12:25 PM

how so? If im in dos I'm not connected to the net. what security is there to worry about craig?
what other alternatives do I have, how do you guys get your drives formatted?

~~craig588~~ · Aug 13, 2003, 12:40 PM

I spent some time and made a selfbooting slipstreamed windows 2000 cd. It has SP4 and DX9 already installed, and it can format all of my drives.

I'm talking about if someone else was to run NTFSdos on your machine, they don't need to enter passwords to gain access to anything.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 13, 2003, 12:42 PM

ohhhhh pfft thats fine wit me no one else uses it cept my bro we jus use my user account. and actually another question lol. For XP Pro how do I autologon my account? i forgot!

peterosesbookie · Aug 13, 2003, 01:00 PM

I always liked to format my drives first with fat32 but now I cannot do that but I always converted them to NTFS, but now I format the drives with my homebrew WinPE disk. I format them striaght to NTFS.

later

pete

Dyre Straits · Aug 13, 2003, 01:01 PM

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Originally posted by BiGBrOWnPimpsta
ohhhhh pfft thats fine wit me no one else uses it cept my bro we jus use my user account. and actually another question lol. For XP Pro how do I autologon my account? i forgot!

For autologon, use XP Powertoys Tweakui and activate the Logon setting for your account.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 13, 2003, 01:41 PM

ok thx dyre, so where can I get NTFSdos? tell me what other programs you guys use or simpler methods you go upon to format your NTFS drives

Shadow Lady · Aug 13, 2003, 02:05 PM

cant u just use google or somethen?

here NTFSDOS 3.0, not so difficult huh?

Stormy · Aug 13, 2003, 02:05 PM

There is an XP boot disk ya know...

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 13, 2003, 02:07 PM

yea 6 disks

Stormy · Aug 13, 2003, 02:08 PM

no, one floppy disk. It simply copies all boot files to the disk (NtLDR for one) and you can boot to NTFS DOS.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 13, 2003, 02:12 PM

do u right click on the floppy driveand create boot disk if u do ive dont it never works

Stormy · Aug 13, 2003, 03:08 PM

It's always worked for me. Are you sure your BIOS is set up to look on the floppy first, THEN HDD or CD-ROM?

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 13, 2003, 06:37 PM

yea! regular Windows 98/ME disks always work for me! it like starts lodaing but then I can only use a: prompt. any drive specification wont do crap. even for my friend this is the issue. thats why the XP boot disk is BS to me!