DOS feature on formatting disk

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Jan 18 15:50:47 2005

At 03:20 PM 1/18/2005, Fred Cisin wrote:
>In their more recent operating systems, they are also completely unclear
>on the concept of "floppy boot". If one of the system files ON THE HARD
>DISK is bad, it CAN NOT be booted. What else can I boot an NT machine
>with that can read and write an NTFS partition?

Any one of the Linux-based boot CDs that handle NTFS? Or the
Sysinternals tools that handle NTFS? Or a second machine that
can still read the hard disk, if you transplant it?

- John
Received on Tue Jan 18 2005 - 15:50:47 GMT

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