In message , Computer Nerd
Kev writes:
On 07 Oct 2013, 98 Guy wrote:

Sometimes to really make those 3 disappear you need to
delete or rename the files so the system can't find them.
That's easy to do on a win-98 system (just boot into DOS)
but on an NT-based system with that fabulous NTFS, good
luck.

If you can't modify a file in the fake DOS window or anywhere
else in Windows, you could still use a bootable Linux distro
such as SystemRescueCD to access the drive using the ntfs-3g
driver. I think there might even be limited DOS programs for
accessing and (to some extent) modifying NTFS partitions. Of
course, it would be best to have a backup in case things go
wrong.

Yes, there are, you don't have to use Linux. There are more that give
read access than modify (there may be only one of the latter).

The name NTFS4DOS comes to mind for one of them. 98Guy do you
remember/know, or do you just blank out anything NTFS-related?
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