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Christophe simply moved his page, he's still around and he's still working on the open source NTFS utils: web site.

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Update : Several readers wrote in about this one, including Sebastien, W0rm, and Rich Green. I have also mirrored a copy of this at ibiblio util/disk/. I have temporarily uploaded it at ntfs.zip. Can you post this program at your page? May be the old maintainer contacts you or we search for a new maintainer. It's under the GNU GPL and a port from Linux to DOS.

So it seems that NTFS support would have to be provided on the DOS level first, before Windows boots.įrom an archived copy of the original Sysinternals description of their program I found this:Ī > NTFS for Windows 98ĮnricoB sent me this note about reading NTFS from DOS: I have searched for a NTFS driver for DOS and have found it. But it seems the biggest obstacle to such an implementation is the fact that the Windows 98 OS is still actually MS-DOS underneath. (So now we have to dig around for old copies.)Īnyway, if it is possible to implement NTFS into Windows 98 itself (through a major hack), I doubt it could support the extra file security that NT/2K/XP boasts. I noticed one of the commercial products claims 'NTFS drives behave just like regular FAT and FAT32 drives.' Unfortunately, several of these packages require files from either Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 in order to work.īTW: One of the freeware NTFS for Windows 98 solutions above is originally from a website called ' Sysinternals' and a company called ' Winternals Software.' However, the company was bought out by Microsoft a couple years ago and several of their free programs have been removed from the site, including the NTFS for Windows 98 software. ($79 or more?! ) In some cases the software only allows reading and/or writing of files through an explorer-like interface, but some have more to offer. However, the second two are commercial products. The first two links above are for freeware. NTFS for Windows 98 (v1.03) (Sysinternals)

Still, there are several different software packages available which provides NTFS support for the Windows 98 series:ĭiskInternals > NTFS Reader for Windows 95, 98, Me

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Volume Shadow Copy) are lost because the older OS doesn't understand how to keep the new features' data updated. This affects dual-booting, and external portable hard drives.įor example, 'Previous Versions' (a.k.a. While the different NTFS versions have a great degree of both forward and backward compatibility, there are technical considerations for mounting newer NTFS volumes in older versions of Windows.

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