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Accessing CD-ROM from dos
Name: Brad Date: July 22, 2002 at 10:08:07 Pacific
Comment:
Hello my hard drive is NTFS and I wan't to access my CD-ROM from dos but I can't. I tried a Win 98 and XP start-up disk but they don't work. Is it possible?
Name: joseph Date: July 22, 2002 at 10:27:05 Pacific
Reply:
Boot your PC while holding down F8. Select the Safe Mode with Command Prompt option and press Enter. You can access the cd-rom drive at the command prompt.
Hope this helps. Bye
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Response Number 2
Name: Brad Date: July 22, 2002 at 10:31:03 Pacific
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No I can't do that, that option does not exist with NTFS.
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Response Number 3
Name: joseph Date: July 22, 2002 at 10:38:55 Pacific
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Are you using Windows XP PRO with the NTFS file system? If so, what did you get when you pressed F8 while starting your PC?
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Response Number 4
Name: Brad Date: July 22, 2002 at 11:05:33 Pacific
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Yes I'm sure, it used to be there when it was FAT32 but then I converted to NTFS.
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Response Number 5
Name: Brad Date: July 22, 2002 at 16:09:44 Pacific
Reply:
Nevermind, this isn't as easy as I thought. If anyone is interested in doing this, look into a program called NTFSDOS.
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Response Number 6
Name: Brad Date: July 23, 2002 at 15:43:42 Pacific
Reply:
I actually found something on bootdisk.com, so it is possible. If your interested in acessing your harddrive from dos with NTFS use NTFSDOS.
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