[arachne] NTFS from floppy boot - was Re: FAT32 vs. NTFS

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HI Sam H.,
                      You can only access a NTFS
partition with a floppy made from XP which
is setup with NTFS. As I recall XP install
disk makes a set of several floppies to
boot from the floppy drive.
      If XP w/NTFS was installed 1st then C:
drive is probably a NTFS partition.

Eric

On Wed, 20 May 2009 03:11:10 -0400 "Samuel W. Heywood"
<sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> 
> Question:
> 
> If you install WinXP on a FAT32 partition instead of on a 
> ntfs partition, is it possible to access the "C:" drive after
> you boot to a floppy?
> 
> In my experience, upon booting to a floppy, I have not been 
> able to to access the hard drive of a WinXP computer where 
> WinXP has been installed on a ntfs partition.  I don't know
> how to do it, but this is not to say that it can't be done.
> I don't think it is possible to do that, but I'm not absolutely
> sure that it can't be done.
> 
> Does anybody here know how to do that?
> 
> Sam Heywood

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