DOS feature on formatting disk

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:20:41 -0800 (PST), Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> > track 0. Why must it fail to format because track 0
> > is partially readable when I specifically asked it
> > to unconditionally format?
> 
> Because MICROS~1 is completely unclear on the concept of "unconditional".
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
Checkout Knoppix it can do loads of stuff with ntfs partitions. Virus
checking, repairing, password changing.



Dan