Wednesday, December 7, 2016

boot - How to create bootable DOS USB stick which sees NTFS drives?


How to create bootable DOS USB stick which sees NTFS drives ?


I've found ntfs4dos.exe by Mark Russinovich, but I don't know how to use it with dos.
Also I've found many ways to create DOS bootable USB sticks, but many of them simply aren't working. So, my question consists of 2 parts:


1)Create bootable and WORKING DOS USB stick,
2)How to make it, to enable NTFS drives and work with them.


Answer



OK. After a long month of googling and researching (from Sep 27 to Oct 20), I've found driver by Paragon, and could get it working.
1) create MS-DOS boot floppy image (I think you already know how to do it...)
2) copy this driver
3) create an ISO (for example, with UltraISO), and put floppy image there
4) create a batch file, which mounts floppy image in virtual drive , using Rawwrite.exe
5) set that batch as ISO's bootable file
6) write your ISO to floppy , using tools like WinToFlash


This driver's specifications:


1) It can read/write NTFS drives
2) It is very very small. (NTFSDos needs many files and much space)
3) It doesn't need Autorun.bat or Config.sys. It just needs you to run mount.bat.
4) It's silent. (NTFSDos's free versions always show smtg)
5) You can even copy it to floppy, just by creating an MS-DOS boot disk!
6) It runs almost in all MS-DOSes.
7) In this link it's FREE to download :)


I think this can help a lot of people, who don't want to search everywhere;)
Good luck !


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