Windows 2000 boot floppy will not see complete hdd?

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win xp and w98 dual boot pc booted to dos from a standard boot floppy
and then dir command shows only some of the directories on the win98
partition D:(fat32 probably)!
Could that be some issue with privilleges that one cannot see windows
folder od d:?
 
j_slobo@hotmail.com wrote:
> win xp and w98 dual boot pc booted to dos from a standard boot floppy
> and then dir command shows only some of the directories on the win98
> partition D:(fat32 probably)!
> Could that be some issue with privilleges that one cannot see windows
> folder od d:?


maybe this will help http://www.easydos.com/dir.html
 
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In article <dfd53411-bedf-4439-a4bd-00d50c19583d@
25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>, j_slobo@hotmail.com says...
> win xp and w98 dual boot pc booted to dos from a standard boot floppy
> and then dir command shows only some of the directories on the win98
> partition D:(fat32 probably)!
> Could that be some issue with privilleges that one cannot see windows
> folder od d:?

A basic DOS boot floppy cannot understand NTFS, which is probably the
format of your XP partition.

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Get NTFSDOS. The free version can read files on an NT partition. You can
pay a bit and get a version that can write file.

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> [This followup was posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general and a copy
> was sent to the cited author.]
>
> In article <dfd53411-bedf-4439-a4bd-00d50c19583d@
> 25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>, j_slobo@hotmail.com says...
> > win xp and w98 dual boot pc booted to dos from a standard boot floppy
> > and then dir command shows only some of the directories on the win98
> > partition D:(fat32 probably)!
> > Could that be some issue with privilleges that one cannot see windows
> > folder od d:?
>
> A basic DOS boot floppy cannot understand NTFS, which is probably the
> format of your XP partition.
>
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