Accessing windows xp partition from Windows 98

[patoking]

Hello all,
Can I access a WinXP partition (NTFS ) from Windows 98? I messed my MBR while installing Redhat Linux 7.2, now I can only load Linux and Win98 but not XP - it gives an error abut hardware or config problem.

 

[jasonwichman]

You should be able to access it. It sounds like you want to use 3 OS's on 1 PC. I suggest system commander or to install Linux so that Lilo or Grub (depending on what package you installed) only boots from a boot disk. The install will say "leave MBR alone, don't install Lilo or Grub" You just need to take a floppy and make a boot disk during install then. It maybe a bit differnt to that exact wording, but you'll figure it out. Jason Wichman

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[MasterofNone]

I might be missing something here as I'm not a linux user, but wasn't the original question: Can I access a WinXP partition (NTFS ) from Windows 98?

As Windows 98 is not compatible with NTFS file systems, the answer would have to be No surely.

There appears to be a read-only Linux driver available. Please see this link:

http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs/.

Or a software package for Win 98:

http://www.winternals.com/products/fct/ntfswin98.asp

Apologies if someone knows a work around, but to my knowledge 98 + NTFS are a no go.

 

[jasonwichman]

Let me make myself more clear. If you can boot into 98, and XP is installed on a different partition (which it sounds this way) You should be able to see that drive and access the folders. If you couldn't do this then someone running a 2000 advanced server, wouldn't be able to acces files from a 95 or 98 box. Also, if this was the case that there is NO WAY to access an NTFS partion with 98 you couldn't use a p2p network or any type of network for that matter with 98 or 2k or XP working together. I have had 98 and XP running on the same PC. I could see all the XP information on the NTFS drive. I am sure that you can do it, but it does require it to be setup properly in order to use this. Jason Wichman

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[patoking]

Thanks all for the replies.

 

[wolluf]

http://www.sysinternals.com

have a freeware utility called ntfs98ro which enables you to read NTFS partitions from win9x/ME.

 

[Guest_imported]

In responce to jasonwichman's later Jul 3 post, you have made some assumptions which are incorrect.
Win98 cannot read NTFS partitions. The Microsoft knowledge base, and XP system help files will confirm this for you.
P2P networking does not rely on filesystem compatibility for two different OSs to share files - that service is provided by the middleware. For eg Win98 can share files with Linux and Mac file systems on a network, and vice versa. This is seperate and unrelated from the ability to read a local hard drive partition.
Furthermore if you were able to read a local NTFS partition from Win98 then NTFS security would be compromised as Win98 is not a multi-user OS and has no concept of file permissions (additional 3rd-party software or Linux will permit access though still requires the password for any restricted access files)

Regards.