Need DOS utility to format NTFS partition

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Emerald Saint - 29 May 2008 04:48 GMT

Hello,

I need small utility that can create a NTFS partition. It needs to fit on a
boot floppy with lots of room to spare. It needs to not care what OS is
presently booted.

TIA

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sgopus - 29 May 2008 05:13 GMT

ntdos should do the trick
you'll find it at bootdisc.com

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Rene Brehmer - 30 May 2008 20:11 GMT

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disk druid on debian boot floppy, reads every file system in existence, not
just NTFS and FAT. Why DOS? It's not safe to use to manage anything but
DOS. Linux comes in handy when you're trying to get data of old HPFS or
Netware drives and onto any newer systems. And disk druid is the only one I
know of that can do the trick of changing just the file table to switch
from FAT to NTFS, or the other way.

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John John (MVP) - 30 May 2008 20:24 GMT

There are no DOS utilities that I know of that can format partitions to
the NTFS file format. NTFS is a proprietary format and there are few
NTFS formating utilities available other than those provided by
Microsoft with their NT based operating systems.

Few third party software companies hold license to provide NTFS
formatting utilities, the only one that I can think of which *may* be
licensed is Paragon.

John

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