[Help] Boot Floppy & NTFS & foreing characters

[JohnS]

I am trying to save a friend's old notebook that no longer boots into XP.

His first request was to recover some precious documents.

His notebook hasn't CD driver and is formatted with NTFS file system.

So, I boot from a floppy.

Then, because of the NTFS system, I load this trully lifesaver which is NTFSDOS, from sysinternals, which was put in the floppy.

And the best thing is that this jewell can read long file names, not just those mydocu~1 DOS names.

With it I can read the hard drive.

Then, I copy all the documents he wants to the second partition, because I want to format the primary partition.

The real problem is that this is a portuguese computer and his documents names have portuguese characters, like ã, é, ê and they are not recognized. When I type dir I can see the file names but not the correct portuguese names.

I have searched the net before posting, and it could be a problem with the settings of the keyboard, so it could be solved by changing the codes in the CONFIG.SYS to reflect my regional settings:

351 for country code, po for keyboard code and 850 for character set.

I have this in my config.sys

device=display.sys con=(ega,,1)

country=351,850,country.sys

install=mode.com con cp prepare=((850) ega.cpi)

install=mode.com con cp select=850

install=keyb.com po,,keyboard.sys

With this config.sys the portuguese keyboard is recognized and I can type in the command line portuguese characters, but the file names continue to not be recognized.

Can anyone help?

Thank you,

JS

Edited November 18, 2006 by JohnS

[allen2]

You're mixing code page for ntfs driver and code page for the dos environment. They aren't the same.

The lastest NTFSDOS from Winternals is able to use localized drivers when you make the dos floppy as it request windows files.

You can try instead the free NTFS4DOS: http://www.datapol.de/dpe/freeware/

[JohnS]

Thanks allen2 for your support, but I could not understand you.

By suggesting that I use NTFS4DOS are you saying that I can't have NTFSDOS work the way I want?

After you suggested NTFS4DOS I tried it but it even hasn't support for long file names, like NTFSDOS has.

And, if as you say

The lastest NTFSDOS from Winternals is able to use localized drivers when you make the dos floppy

shouldn't it work with my floppy, as I have the portuguese codes?

Thank you.

[allen2]

You're right if you created the floppy from a windows with the same locale code page then it should work. But even if it doesn't work you might want to try to copy some files and check afterwards if the files names are copied correctly.

If third party tools doesn't work then you can try the XP recovery console booting from the 6 floppy disks.