In preparation for A+ OS exam, I booted from MS-DOS rescue disk to an A prompt. Typing in C: to access the hard drive (which is perfectly good; without the floppy rescue disk, the computer boots normally; I'm just doing this as lab. exercise), I get "invalid command". I tried other variations such as CD C:\ and Run. Still cannot access hard drive. What to do?
2006-09-20 14:27:56 · 4 answers · asked by flandargo 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Its kind of a trick question depending what format the hard drive is formatted as. If you are booting from a DOS boot disk and your hard drive is formated as NTFS, you will never be able to se it. DOS can not see or recognize a NTFS partition which is pretty much what all harddrives using Windows Operating Systems use. This sounds like you issue. YOu will have to use an NT recovery disk to see the NTFS partition
2006-09-20 14:35:00 · answer #1 · answered by snare3011 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if your hard drive is formatted under NTFS partion, you can use the Windows CD Installer to access its partition. Try to boot your cd installer and look for Recovery Console.
as what mentioned by some respondent, you can't access the NTFS partition by booting only on DOS rescue disk coz it supports only FAT filesystem. If you're HD is formatted on FAT/FAT32 you can access it with no problem.
or another option you can have, try to use third party rescue disk say Partition Magic to access the NTFS partion.
2006-09-20 21:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by xroot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Older MS-DOS can not recognize large hard drives and NTFS system
2006-09-20 21:30:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are operating from XP, you can't, since it's not built on the DOS framework, but rather uses the NTFS
2006-09-20 22:28:30 · answer #4 · answered by oklatom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋