DOS feature on formatting disk

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "John" == John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> writes:

 John> 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?

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

Linux NTFS has an "experimental" read/write capability for NTFS, but
that only works with NTFS V4 -- with WinNT.  It doesn't handle the
Win2k or later flavors of NTFS.  Or at least, it didn't last I looked
(which I think was Fedora 1).

       paul