Dos/ntfs/fat32

Hello, I have an issue that I need some help for, though I do not know that there is any. A person at my company, through too much and inappropriate internet exploring, has crashed his computer (resets whenever windows xp home starts). I have put the HDD in another computer and booted into dos with a startupdisk and found out that dos has no clue how to handle logical drives with NTFS. After many hours I found the program "readntfs" which has allowed me to view the files on the HDD. The problem is that the program can only copy files to a fat32 drive, which I do not currently have installed in the computer (actually I have a 2gb backup partition that is fat32 but the path that using that option leads to is long and bumpy). My question is simplys this; is there a program that runs under dos that would allow me to copy files from one HDD using ntfs to another HDD using ntfs. If not I think i may be able to make this work through the 2gb backup drive but that would be well over a 6 hour job. I would normally just reformat the drive and move on with my life but this idiot has un-backed-up files on his HDD that are neccessary to our company (well over 6hrs to find and reenter all of the lost data)

Please, if anyone knows how I can make this happen let me know, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you very much,

Joe Guff

P.S. I have also heard about the program ntfsdos or something along those line but that program supposedly does not support drives over 2gb.

 

yes, read the info on this link.
But as you might have expected the utility is not FREE like readNTFS.

There might be other programs but none that I know is free....either way, good luck!

 

Here's a dumb question since I don't deal with NTFS very much...since your computer is also NTFS, why don't you just boot into Windows to read the data from the crashed drive (set up as slave), instead of using a DOS boot disk?

If you didn't have a second NTFS computer to put the drive into, this would do the trick nicely:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

It's free, the only caveat is that you need a WinXP install CD with SP1 or higher slipstreamed onto it, or a 2003 Server CD in order to create the CD. Once you make one with the plug-ins you choose though, it's awesome. You can copy disk to disk, save to a network share, burn to a CD, whatever.

 

thank you for the info. on the one response the program would cast 1199.00 and WOW is that expensive =-) the other idea is one that may work and I will give it a try tomorrow. Thank you very much for the assistance!

-Joe

 

Let us know how it goes.

 

Deduct the cost from the idiot's salary who caused this problem in the first place, or your time, from the department heads budget. That should get the message across. Bazza

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