Re: [Freedos-user] why isn't anyone answering my question? - host filesystem access inside emulators

2019-07-17 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:27:52 +0200 E. Auer wrote: > >>2. An operating system running inside a PC emulator like VirtualBox cannot >>access the direct hardware of the machine. > >This means that it does not even matter whether FreeDOS can >access NTFS at all: What you need is a way to make a

Re: [Freedos-user] why isn't anyone answering my question? - host filesystem access inside emulators

2019-07-17 Thread E. Auer
Hi Jim and AM, 1. FreeDOS cannot read NTFS. However, there are non-open-source tools for DOS in general which let you access files on older NTFS filesystems, for example Avira NTFS4DOS from 2007, may access Windows 2003 or older filesystems. FreeDOS can read variations of the FAT