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Hiren's BootCD (was NTFS Formatter that Runs in DOS)
Ant wrote:
http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ V15.2 from 11/2012. No more updates I assume? http://www.hirensbootcd.org/faq/ "This website is being developed by a few long term users and fans of Hiren¢s BootCD. Hiren¢s BootCD saved our lifes and helped us many times. We thank and appreciate Hiren for develeping this great BootCD." "This website is not related with Hiren." The implication is that Hiren hasn't been involved with his original project for some time. They don't mention if he died or chose to abandon his project or why he is absent. "Donations made over the Donation link on this website directly goes to developer Hiren, we don¢t get anything from this donations." Well, hope they aren't forwarding the donations to his heirs. The above web site gives Hiren's home page, which is at: https://www.hiren.info/ That's Hiren's home page. You cannto get his BootCD project from his site. is reported as valid (it is still defined). Google kills inactive accounts over 9 months old. |
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NTFS Formatter that Runs in DOS
Does anyone know if there is a NTFS formatter that runs in DOS?
Note: I am willing to pay for it. What I would like to be able to do is put this NTFS formatter on a bootable floppy disk. Next, power up my old computer (with a floppy disk drive), and use the NTFS formatter to format the hard drive. Note: I do not want to install an OS on the hard drive. Thank You in advance, John Dos? are you sure about it? what is your operating system? 98Se, 98, 95? Try this link: https://superuser.com/questions/258720/how-can-i-format-a-ntfs-drive-from-dos One post seems to suggest using Linux Live DVD to format the disk!!. God knows how this works. Hi Good Guy, The idea of using "Linux Live DVD" is a very appealing alternative. Note: I did not try that link above yet. I will later. I assume I can download the .ISO image file and use Roxio to burn a DVD. Note: I used Roxio many times to burn CDs & DVDs or make images of CDs & DVDs. My internet speed is not the fastest. It takes about 3 hrs to download a 1 GB file. Do you or anyone know the size of "Linux Live" DVD image? Thank You in advance, John |
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NTFS Formatter that Runs in DOS
On Sat, 20 May 2017 11:12:04 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:
wrote: Does anyone know if there is a NTFS formatter that runs in DOS? format.com Note: I am willing to pay for it. What I would like to be able to do is put this NTFS formatter on a bootable floppy disk. Next, power up my old computer (with a floppy disk drive), and use the NTFS formatter to format the hard drive. Note: I do not want to install an OS on the hard drive. Hiren's boot CD has a myriad of freeware tools including DOS tools such as format.com. The .info site doesn't have the .iso but the .org does. https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd All in One Bootable CD which has all these utilities http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ Hi, An earlier reply mentioned "Linux Live" CD that allows you to format the HD in NTFS format. I never used Linux, but I am hearing a lot about the Linux OS from some of the ham radio operators I had a conversation(s) with in the past. I believe I can download the CD/DVD image (.ISO) for Linux Live, but I need to find out how big the file is. Note: It takes about 3 hrs to download a 1 GHZ size file since I don't have the fastest internet speed. John N3AOF |
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NTFS Formatter that Runs in DOS
On Sun, 21 May 2017 19:27:04 +0100, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
On Sun, 21 May 2017 10:44:34 +0100, wrote: Does anyone know if there is a NTFS formatter that runs in DOS? Note: I am willing to pay for it. What I would like to be able to do is put this NTFS formatter on a bootable floppy disk. Next, power up my old computer (with a floppy disk drive), and use the NTFS formatter to format the hard drive. Note: I do not want to install an OS on the hard drive. Thank You in advance, John Dos? are you sure about it? what is your operating system? 98Se, 98, 95? Try this link: https://superuser.com/questions/258720/how-can-i-format-a-ntfs-drive-from-dos One post seems to suggest using Linux Live DVD to format the disk!!. God knows how this works. Hi Good Guy, The idea of using "Linux Live DVD" is a very appealing alternative. Note: I did not try that link above yet. I will later. I assume I can download the .ISO image file and use Roxio to burn a DVD. Note: I used Roxio many times to burn CDs & DVDs or make images of CDs & DVDs. My internet speed is not the fastest. It takes about 3 hrs to download a 1 GB file. Do you or anyone know the size of "Linux Live" DVD image? Thank You in advance, John If all you need is the gparted bit, then you can go for a minimalist linux distro, such as Puppy. or this "business card sized" one that's twice the size (but updated more recently) http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09727 Personally, I'd use xPud, as IMO it's the quickest smallest distro, and then add gparted.opt main: http://xpud.org/download.en.html Gparted: ("Utilities") http://mesrss.free.fr/xpud/opt/ download and put in "/opt" folder. -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug |
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Hiren's BootCD (was NTFS Formatter that Runs in DOS)
VanguardLH wrote:
Ant wrote: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ V15.2 from 11/2012. No more updates I assume? http://www.hirensbootcd.org/faq/ "This website is being developed by a few long term users and fans of Hiren???s BootCD. Hiren???s BootCD saved our lifes and helped us many times. We thank and appreciate Hiren for develeping this great BootCD." "This website is not related with Hiren." The implication is that Hiren hasn't been involved with his original project for some time. They don't mention if he died or chose to abandon his project or why he is absent. "Donations made over the Donation link on this website directly goes to developer Hiren, we don???t get anything from this donations." Well, hope they aren't forwarding the donations to his heirs. The above web site gives Hiren's home page, which is at: https://www.hiren.info/ That's Hiren's home page. You cannto get his BootCD project from his site. is reported as valid (it is still defined). Google kills inactive accounts over 9 months old. Thanks. I wonder if there are any good updated replacements out there. -- Quote of the Week: "In every enemy that is an ant, behold an elephant." --Turkish Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Hiren's BootCD (was NTFS Formatter that Runs in DOS)
On 5/21/2017 9:21 PM, Ant wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: Ant wrote: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ V15.2 from 11/2012. No more updates I assume? http://www.hirensbootcd.org/faq/ "This website is being developed by a few long term users and fans of Hiren???s BootCD. Hiren???s BootCD saved our lifes and helped us many times. We thank and appreciate Hiren for develeping this great BootCD." "This website is not related with Hiren." The implication is that Hiren hasn't been involved with his original project for some time. They don't mention if he died or chose to abandon his project or why he is absent. "Donations made over the Donation link on this website directly goes to developer Hiren, we don???t get anything from this donations." Well, hope they aren't forwarding the donations to his heirs. The above web site gives Hiren's home page, which is at: https://www.hiren.info/ That's Hiren's home page. You cannto get his BootCD project from his site. is reported as valid (it is still defined). Google kills inactive accounts over 9 months old. Thanks. I wonder if there are any good updated replacements out there. http://alternativeto.net/software/hiren39s-bootcd/ I played with Gandalf's. Don't remember why i didn't like it. |
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NTFS Formatter that Runs in DOS
On Sun, 21 May 2017 23:54:01 +0100, philo wrote:
On 05/19/2017 08:37 AM, wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there is a NTFS formatter that runs in DOS? Note: I am willing to pay for it. What I would like to be able to do is put this NTFS formatter on a bootable floppy disk. Next, power up my old computer (with a floppy disk drive), and use the NTFS formatter to format the hard drive. Note: I do not want to install an OS on the hard drive. Thank You in advance, John Not from a floppy When I did builds, you had to allow the install process of Windows (XP back then) to go through the format (or change of format) after the dos boot disk had set the harddisk partition type to NTFS. Maybe you could interrupt the install process at that point? but you can get a Hiren's boot cd or Avira has a boot disk with ntfs4dos, it might be possible to hack that. -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug |
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NTFS Formatter that Runs in DOS
On 5/21/2017 7:47 AM, wrote:
Hi, An earlier reply mentioned "Linux Live" CD that allows you to format the HD in NTFS format. I never used Linux, but I am hearing a lot about the Linux OS from some of the ham radio operators I had a conversation(s) with in the past. I believe I can download the CD/DVD image (.ISO) for Linux Live, but I need to find out how big the file is. Note: It takes about 3 hrs to download a 1 GHZ size file since I don't have the fastest internet speed. John N3AOF John: Information, including size, and links to lots of live CDs here; http://livecdlist.com/ HTH & GL John -- |
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