Hello, all: In many cases, it is a LOT easier just to shrink the Windows XP NTFS partition a bit and create a FAT32 partition for sharing files between Windows XP and DOS. You can even make this FAT32 partition bootable and install FreeDOS if you want.
Partition Magic used to be able to do this, but doesn't work on the NTFS partitions I've tried in the last year or so. I think it may be related to XP SP2. YMMV. The open source qtparted program does this easily enough. You can boot it from the system rescue cd, www.sysresccd.org and do the repartitioning. For more information, you can see http://k1ea.com/hints/DOS%20dual%20boot%20version%201.0.pdf The recently released NTFS4DOS driver also allows write access to NTFS partitions and does work with FreeDOS as well. Mark Bailey > Hi, > > Kenneth J. Davis escribió: > > > For applications which are best run from pure DOS, but the user has > > only NTFS (and Windows), and the max data stored is known ahead of > > time, a possible solution involves creating the file ahead of time (in > > Windows) and then in DOS either using a special driver to treat the > > file as a virtual drive or in the application specially supporting > > it. The file itself could be an app specific format (where a Windows > > program/GUI reads it and displays the information to/interacts with > > the user) or simply a disk image so a program like VFD makes it a > > virtual drive to Windows as well. Although not currently supported, > > it should even be possible to boot FreeDOS (possibly from the same > > disk image data stored to) from the NTFS partition. I am aware of one > > company that used an approach similar to this (where the user > > interacted with a Windows program, and the computer rebooted into DOS > > to run the tests, and then back into Windows for processing/displaying > > the results). > > Doesn't PowerQuest do this in their PartitionMagic when you want to do > something critical to the %systemdrive%? > > Aitor > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput > a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? > If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. > Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
