Re: OT: Norton GhostPE 2001 problem

Robert Baer wrote:
True, plain DOS cannot recognize FAT32,

False. MS-DOS 7 handles it just fine.
(LFNs are another matter.)

NTFS

Depends on what you call *plain DOS*.

[...]That utility would be nice[...]

http://www.google.com/search?q=ntfsinst.exe+NTFS4DOS

or Linux partitions

Exactly which *Linux filesystem* would that be?
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:srz2Lp7I0PoJ:docsrv.caldera.com:8457/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=fs%26mansection=5+minix+ext+ext2+xia+msdos+umsdos+vfat+proc+nfs+iso9660+hpfs+sysv+ncpfs+fat+OR+msdos+vfat+cramfs+smbfs+OR+smb+ufs+ntfs

Using DOS to try to access Linux filesystems *is* a waste of time.
OTOH, if you have to deal with this stuff,
booting Knoppix (or another Live CD) and using dd (Disk Dump)
would be the obvious solution for copying files from various
filesystems.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/12/1748242&threshold=5&mode=nested#7455386

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