OT: Re: Creating an NTFS Boot disk (was Re: DOS feature on formatting disk)

[Dan Williams]

> NOBODY has mentioned ANY third party utilities that will WRITE an NTFS
> partition.  NTFSDOS PRO will, but it is very expensive (the free one is
> read-only)
> 
> Booting an alternate OS (Knoppix?) looks like the most promising.
> 
> Or removing the drive and installing it as second drive in a functional
> machine.
> 
> > BTW, I located this KB article after someone I know thought he would be good
> > and clean up his root folder by moving "unnecessary" files -- including
> > ntldr -- to other folders. Next time he rebooted: surprise! no boot.
> 
> Their "boot disk" seems to work if files are MISSING, but not if they are
> present (damaged)
> 
> I think that if I could ERASE the bad file, then I could boot and fix it.
> 
Another option would be the bart pe

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

If you have a windows xp cd, this will give you xp that runs from a
cd. Also good to have in your toolbox.

Dan