Win98 on NTFS

[LeveL]

I always assume it is impossible to run any FAT32

OS on NTFS but is it really impossible? Would be nice

to see my NTFS drives using 98 or Me.

[Sonic]

I think it's impossible to install windows onto ntfs drive ... otherwise you can read ntfs disk other than system disk with NTFSReader ...

[Andromeda43]

Lets get down to the basics. OK?

Windows 98 like all its predicessors is a DOS based program (OS).

NO Dos based OS or utilities can SEE an NTFS partition.

One exception I can think of to this rule is Norton's Ghost 2003.

When booted from a dos disk, Ghost can see and backup an NTFS partition.

NO, 98 cannot even see a NTFS partition, let alone run on one.

If you're truly a windows 98 lover, having an NTFS partition anywhere on your PC should be the very last thing on earth that you'd want. It would avail you absolutely NOTHING! It would be invisible to anything but an NT based OS. (or Ghost 2003)

For a true 98 lover, NTFS is pure B.S.!

Having said all that, I want to wish you all a very Happy Holiday Season,

Andromeda43

[bristols]

I always assume it is impossible to run any FAT32

OS on NTFS but is it really impossible? Would be nice

to see my NTFS drives using 98 or Me.

What you always assume is correct - AFAIK it cannot be done. However, this does not mean that you can't see or access NTFS partitions/drives from Windows 9x.

Use this freeware utility for Windows 9x to access NTFS drives:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsWindows98.html

Edited November 27, 2005 by bristols

[jaclaz]

@LeveL

This topic has already been discussed a number of times, please take your time and read these:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=50278

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=39573

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=34955

and God only knows how many other times....

Please do search on the board before posting the same question again, if you need something more just post on an existing thread, information will be kept together, so that next user will find a more complete thread...

@Andromeda43, @bristols

Just for the record, there is no built-in filesystem driver in DOS/WIN9X, it is perfectly possible by the way to write one, problem is that noone did it.

There are a number of programs that can access data on a NTFS partition, you will find most of them linked to in the posts above listed.

GHOST does not try to read data inside a NTFS filesystem, like most drive/partition imaging solutions, it just backs up the entire filesystem or volume.

jaclaz

[pmshah]

Even the NTFS read only utility takes up so much of memeory it will practically kill your machine.

I recently came across a reasonably priced utility to mount NTFS partions in R/W mode under Win98 & ME. It is called MountAll from Acronis. In fact it can also handle Linux partitions. On a 256 mb ME setup the machine just coasts along without any slowing down of the system. Would be worth your while to try it.