Posted earlier: Name: Kim-Gau Ng Subject: Access extended partitions under DR-DOS Comment: This is an update to a message I posted on June 29, 2002, about DR-DOS 7.03 being unable to access extended partitions. At the advice of Matthias Paul (many thanks to Matthias), I replaced the DR-DOS 7.03 IBMBIO.COM with that from DR-DOS 7.05, and was then able to see the FAT and FAT32 logical drives in the extended partition. However, I had to stop the DISPLAY.SYS and ANSI.SYS from being loaded, otherwise the system would not boot up. I haven’t looked into the implications of these drivers being not loaded. I have tentatively chosen to use a boot disk with DR-DOS 7.05 IBMBIO.COM (and DR-DOS 7.03 COMMAND.COM and IBMDOS.COM) to view the logical drives. This is just to reduce my chances of accidentally doing something to the logical drives that would hurt my Windows XP system and installed software which are on the logical drives. At least I now have a way of viewing the FAT and FAT32 drives under DR-DOS. I was advised by Matthias not to use the DR-DOS 7.05 IBMDOS.COM. ____________________________ I've done this, but when I try to view the directory of C: (actually D: but C: is NTFS with XP) all I see are smiley faces, hearts, and other ANSI characters. I renamed ansi.sys and display.sys so they wouldn't load, but still can get to a directory, much less run a DOS based program. Any more suggestions?

I have a MS-DOS 7.10 (from Win98) Bootdisk with readntsf.exe on it, with it you can boot a WinXP system and read NTFS, FAT16 & FAT32 partitions. You can also transfer files from a NTFS to a FAT32 partition. You will find it on my Bootdisk Project Page. (Click on the link above)

Also see DRDOS projects: http://www.drdosprojects.de it is compatible with 7.01/7.02/7.03. btw 7.05 was an OnTrack version not for public release and has quirks

I did the above and it worked as it should, but I need to run a scripted process from a command line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT, not simply look at the drive. After I exited and did a DIR it was still ANSI characters, not files structures. Any other suggestions? I need to use DR-DOS because it's faster than MS-DOS for this DOS based application, and all my batch files are written for DR-DOS.