When you execute the file it will create a bootable floppy with the NTFS
partition reader on the floppy.  If you have a 3.5 diskette drive then you
can boot from it and read the NTFS files.

Doug

At 5/27/2004 03:47 PM, a fennell wrote:

>What is the other item at   http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm  that is
>labeled ...
>Self-extracting Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for NTFS Reader
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Doug Simmons
>
>It depends on what you want to do after you have "booted" the machine with
>the CD.  For example if your XP installation uses NTFS file system, then
>you can't see anything on the hard drive with true DOS.  DOS cannot read
>NTFS partitions. If you want a CD to boot in DOS mode to flash a BIOS,
>that's one kind of boot disk.  If you want to get data from a hard drive,
>that's another type of CD boot disk.  If you want to just install Windows
>from a CD then the installation CD is already bootable.
>
>To see several ways to create DOS or Windows bootable CD's, go to:
>
>http://www.bootdisk.com/nero.htm
>
>To create a bootable CD to read NTFS partitions go to:
>
>http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm   and look on the right side of the page
>for the download of the ISO image file.
>
>Doug

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