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Reading a NTFS partition from Win 9x

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by xinman 1 view

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Is there anyway, a third party util, that would allow me to read an NTFS partition from a Windows 9x machine? Please help.

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by asjwm2

Buy PartitionMagic 6.0. I run 6 operating systems on one box with it. It is easy to install Win 95, 98, and 2000 with it. But, installing Linuxes was a little trickier. However, Linux has the "fstab" ( file system table ) command that will allowyou to look at all types of partitions and what is on them. Windows 9x uses a FAT32 format. (File access table). NTFS (NT file system) was designed to be compatible with Windows NT. But I would try PartitionMagic; it saved me lots of time. Or try fdisk from the DOS prompt; it should show you all partitions, but it can't really read what's on an NTFS partition because the two types are incompatible.

by xinman

I mean so that I can view the contents of NTFS through a Windows 9x machine, I have a USB hard drive and I take it to other places, but I want the security of NTFS and the ability to read it through 9x machines.

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