DOS feature on formatting disk

[John Foust]

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