re: Re: Dosemu

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 22:25, Eric Auer wrote:
> > Another thing that will see increasing use, is when XP crashes, before 
> > re-installing, to use the dos partition to copy critical personal files 
> > and folders, to maybe burn them on a cd, and then have the backups 
> > available after the new XP install.
> 
> I thought XP and 2k would use NTFS5 as filesystem? I think booting DOS will
> not help you much here (well, cool enough that the FAT32 filesystem of
> Win9x is supported by FreeDOS).

Actually, Win2K and XP can run on FAT32 ... actually the last batch of
Win2K systems we bought from DELL were FAT32 instead of NTFS ... we had
forgotten to tell then to use NTFS.  It would not supprise me if home
user systems this is the default for XP.

The other thing is that there are read-only NTFS drivers for DOS, though
I don't know if they work on FreeDOS.

Paul