from Rugxulo:
> I don't know if drive letter assignment is configurable. I'd doubt it.
> You might?? be able to adjust some things with certain (third-party?)
> tools, but I'm not sure offhand if that's a reasonable expectation.
> > What is available for reading NTFS used in WXP, W7?
> I think you're barking up the wrong tree. But also I'm not experienced
> enough in trying all the various file systems and drivers and OSes. So
> maybe I am the wrong person to be replying here. I don't want to
> discourage you, just make sure you're asking the right questions.
> I just think it's not well-supported, if at all, to read foreign file
> systems under DOS. There isn't a lot of active work in that area. I
> think it's not a priority. In other words, it's probably more
> reasonable (or at least more commonly accepted) to use a proper OS
> with proper first-party support for that file system, even if only to
> transfer the relevant data to a more suitable disk (or file system)
> for whatever OS you're trying to run (e.g. FAT32 for FreeDOS).
> Even Linux only "mostly" supports NTFS (r/w) except for compression
> and encryption, last I heard. FreeBSD might have support for HPFS too,
> but it may be readonly.
> In other words, it's not a good first choice to try to use FreeDOS to
> read all these other systems. I have no idea if eComStation supports
> FAT32 nowadays (probably), but if you want to use HPFS (full time, not
> just once or twice, read + write), that OS would be my first choice.
> And of course if you don't want to use the obvious modern Windows for
> NTFS (5.x or whatever), you're stuck with Linux or FreeBSD or similar.
> I'm not sure other tools are as trustworthy. Make sure you have
> backups before doing anything heavy-duty!
> If you can bootup a suitable foreign OS and migrate the data to FAT32,
> "most" OSes (even latest eCS, presumably) can access it (read +
> write), and you can boot up FreeDOS and access it (full-time) with no
> problems. That is presumably the "preferred" solution here. Maybe not
> what you want to hear, but we can't have everything. :-/
I don't think FreeBSD, or any other BSD, ever had HPFS support, and I just
looked again for FreeBSD, not even read-only.
If I had anything on HPFS, I suppose I'd use Linux to copy anything I wanted to
save.
OS/2 was just getting an experimental third-party driver for FAT32 back in
2001; I never got to use it.
FAT32 is now good as a lingua franca file system for exchanging data between
various OSes but is very limited on ability to use large partitions: not nearly
as good as NTFS or Linux or BSD file systems. Now EXFAT has been developed to
remedy FAT32's inadequacy for large partitions.
Not having a file system better than FAT32 is a big limiting factor for FreeDOS
and ReactOS, at least for doing big things, perhaps even rebuilding the OS from
source.
Tom
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