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Microsoft => Microsoft DOS => Topic started by: Robin Mitchell on September 06, 2004, 12:13:46 PM

Title: Boot disk that doesn't see  c:
Post by: Robin Mitchell on September 06, 2004, 12:13:46 PM

I'm trying to use a boot floppy to run up an XP machine in DOS mode to copy some files from an old machine using laplink 5 onto the new C: drive.

The DOS boot disk loads, but attempting to select the C drive at the A:\ prompt, I get an error message saying 'invalid drive selected'

What should I include in the autoexec.bat or config.sys so that the C: drive is visible?

Title: Re: Boot disk that doesn't see  c:
Post by: johnwill on September 06, 2004, 04:01:34 PM

If the XP partition is formatted with the NTFS filesystem, MS-DOS will not see it.  If you just want to read files from the disk, you can use NTFSDOS from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml

If you want to write, they'll be glad to sell you the Pro version, something like $300 as I recall... :)