Virtual Machine and NTFS

John John - MVP wrote:
On 10/19/2010 6:08 AM, mm wrote:

You know, until just now, I figured there was something like DOS to
access NTFS partitions. It never occurred to me that there wouldn't
be.

You can use a PE disk like UBCD4Win, or a live Linux CD, or you can
mount the disk in another Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 machine. The DOS over
Recovery Console argument is a non-issue, better methods have long been
available.

John

You didn't mention NTFS4DOS or NTFSDOS Pro (although I think it's getting
harder to find), or Bart's PE Builder CD.

I don't remember all that much about any of these now, since I haven't had
to use any of them for some time now, but perhaps they pale by comparison to
UBCD4Win. ??

"Hot-Text" wrote in message
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mm wrote in message I'll say this. At first when win98FE crashed, I
would find files that were missing

It's the Hard Drive going bad, Not the Software win 98 FE .... the Hard
Drive crashed,

To save your win 98 FE and stop the files from missing....
You would need to get a new Hard Drive make one 32 GB partition on it
with a FAT32 system
And Xcopy the 98 FE to the new Hard Drive is the only way to stop the
lost of create!

That How you do the repair to the Hard Drive,

The 32Gb limit can easily be overcome :
http://jacquesbron.com/blog/general/...under-windows/

"Philo Pastry" wrote in message
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Sunny wrote:

OK, explain how I get (Using Acronis True Image Backup)
"The incremental backup will exceed the 4Gb limit in your
backup file location"

Simple. Acronis doesn't have the brains to split it's backup files into
4 gb chunks. Which is a useful feature the user might want even if it
was being written to an NTFS volume.

Yes it does, it also called for a new file name to continue.
My decision to have a NTFS partition solved the 4Gb limit and ensued that
the backup files were kept in the same file name.
I have had no trouble with Acronis, except for their version 2010 which
porked my LAN access.
They have provided excellent e-mail support, however I reverted to Version
11 and the LAN became available again.
(They have assured me that the problem has not been reported in their
version 2011)

you give me a link to info website for hard drives bigger than 32 GB it can
be 1,000,000 GB all I care.
I say to you to make one 32 GB partition on it with a FAT32 system
partition partition partition partition partition partition partition
partition partition
Then Xcopy to the 32 GB partitionon the new 1,000,000 GB hard drive!

We tell you all 32 GB partition for win98

We care not of the size of the Hard Drives

Do you know you can only have one partition on a Hard Drive
And one Extended on the same Hard Drive
But you can have Log up to X

Partition C:\
Extended Log1 D:\
Log 2 E:\
Log 3 F
Log 4 G
Log 5 H
Log 6 I
UP TO
Log 23 x:\

"Sunny" wrote in message
d.com...

The 32Gb limit can easily be overcome :
http://jacquesbron.com/blog/general/...under-windows/

On 10/19/2010 10:29, glee wrote:
"mm" wrote in message
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I read, probably in the wikip entry for this, that it was free for a
while after MS bought it, but it also gavem me the impression it
wasn't anymore. No time now to go reread it. I'm happy to have the
new version.



It's been free since Microsoft bought it, AFAIK.

Actually, MS put it out as retail for a short period of time after they
bought it. I have the book size box and leaflet size manual to prove it.
I think it sold for around $100 ;-/

On 10/18/2010 15:57, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , glee
writes:
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The second list are the operating systems you can install it on, as a
host machine. I have read elsewhere that it will install and run on XP
Home as well as Pro, but have never tried.

That's what I thought. (Anyone else know?)

VPC will run on XP Home, apparently with no problems, but is officially
unsupported.

The first list is what operating systems are "supported" to be run as
a virtual system on the host. Other systems can be run....Win98,
Linux, etc...they are just not "supported" , meaning you won't get any
help or support for issues, there may not be Additions available for
everything, or there may only be partial functionality of the
unsupported virtual system.

Yes, I thought so too (-:. [What's an "Addition" in this context?]

VPC additions is a software package that runs as a service in the
virtual OS, and allows for some host to guest integration.

"Bill Blanton" wrote in message
ng.com...
On 10/19/2010 10:29, glee wrote:
"mm" wrote in message
...



I read, probably in the wikip entry for this, that it was free for a
while after MS bought it, but it also gavem me the impression it
wasn't anymore. No time now to go reread it. I'm happy to have the
new version.



It's been free since Microsoft bought it, AFAIK.

Actually, MS put it out as retail for a short period of time after
they bought it. I have the book size box and leaflet size manual to
prove it. I think it sold for around $100 ;-/


Ahh...thanks Bill!
--
Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+
http://dts-l.net/

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:28:27 -0500, "Hot-Text"
wrote:

you give me a link to info website for hard drives bigger than 32 GB it can
be 1,000,000 GB all I care.
I say to you to make one 32 GB partition on it with a FAT32 system
partition partition partition partition partition partition partition
partition partition
Then Xcopy to the 32 GB partitionon the new 1,000,000 GB hard drive!

You should try XXcopy. It's really good.

We tell you all 32 GB partition for win98

We care not of the size of the Hard Drives

Do you know you can only have one partition on a Hard Drive

I think you can have 4 primary partitions on a hard drive, or 3
primary partitions and one extended one.

And one Extended on the same Hard Drive
But you can have Log up to X

Yes, I know that.

Partition C:\
Extended Log1 D:\
Log 2 E:\
Log 3 F
Log 4 G
Log 5 H
Log 6 I
UP TO
Log 23 x:\

"Sunny" wrote in message
nd.com...

The 32Gb limit can easily be overcome :
http://jacquesbron.com/blog/general/...under-windows/

In message om, Bill
Blanton writes:
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VPC will run on XP Home, apparently with no problems, but is officially
unsupported.
[]
VPC additions is a software package that runs as a service in the
virtual OS, and allows for some host to guest integration.


Thanks.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Dogs come when they're called.
Cats have answering machines and may get back to you." - Phil Musiak

In message ,
writes:
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Use FAT. Why use NTFS for ANYTHING? If you encounter an error on a
FAT partition, you can retrieve everything unless the hard drive
itself fails. If you crash a NTFS partition, kill ALL your data
goodbye, because there is no way to retrieve anything.

Heck, on a FAT partition, you can just stick in a DOS bootdisk and
access all your data. Why make life complicated when there is no
advantage whatsoever to using NTFS. Even if your drive access is a
tiny bit faster with NTFS, is this worth losing everything? I always
tell people who format NTFS that they damn well better backup their
hard drive at least twice every hour, because if a NTFS installation
fails, IT'S OVER.....

Although I feel happier in FAT, the above is just not true; I recently
helped someone with a Vista system on which the HD began to fail. When
popped into an external housing, I was able to access most of the
original files, on two different machines (my XP one, and the original
rebuilt onto its new HD from its recovery DVDs). [And yes, the HD was
definitely failing, it wasn't just file system corruption. SMART
etcetera.]
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"Dogs come when they're called.
Cats have answering machines and may get back to you." - Phil Musiak