NTFS Boot??

crofty83 · Mar 7, 2006

I have an old win98 boot disks which is excelent for booting into DOS and working on a FAT32 or less drive. However I have a NFTS drive that I need to access via another means than winXP so I can delete some protected/used files. Is this possible

bchur83 · Mar 7, 2006

Boot to the XP CD and run Recovery Console. That will allow you to delete files.

crofty83 · Mar 7, 2006

Are there specific delete commands or is it easy enough to figure out

Captain Newbie · Mar 7, 2006

I think they're just like any other Windows console, del <filename-patterns>.

bchur83 · Mar 7, 2006

Yep, just regular DOS commands.

klingens · Mar 7, 2006

Can you delete files from the recovery console outside \windows?
I usually use a BartPE Boot CD for this since it allways me to do anything on the partition even deleting/renaming the windows directory, something the recovery console definitely does not allow

Captain Newbie · Mar 7, 2006

klingens said:
Can you delete files from the recovery console outside \windows?
I usually use a BartPE Boot CD for this since it allways me to do anything on the partition even deleting/renaming the windows directory, something the recovery console definitely does not allow

IIRC, there's also nothing prohibiting the use of the 'cd' command in Recovery Console either...The idea of recovery console is to give you a working terminal (although 'working' and 'DOS commands' don't go together well) so that you may fix the problem, whatever it may be, that is keeping you from invoking a regular Windows session.

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