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To All:

Recently, I have come across quite a few software for mounting, browsing, and reading/writing NTFS partitions under DOS, but I am not clear about the advantages and disadvantages of each. Please feel free to provide your test reports, and I will sort them out in time.

NTFS partition - related software under DOS that I know so far


Mounting types:
Datapol NTFS4DOS
Paragon DOS IFS Driver (Paragon Mount Everything for DOS)
Winternals NTFSDOS Pro

Browsing types:
Active@ NTFS Reader
Active@ Password Changer
Datapol CIA Commander
Paragon Partition Explorer for DOS

Command - line reading/writing types:
Partition Magic 8 - BTINI.exe
Ghost 8 - OMNIFS.exe


[ Last edited by willsort on 2005-9-24 at 13:24 ]

Let me talk about it.

First of all, we need to classify these few things.

1. cia commander/ntfs4dos
These are all products of datapol. The advantage is that they are relatively small. This category does not support Chinese. cia commander is an independent operating system; ntfs4dos is a program under DOS, which occupies a large amount of memory and does not support long file names. This is sometimes fatal for ntfs.

2. ntfspro
This is a product of winternals. The volume is too large, there are many bugs, and it is the only program that cannot be exited after loading. Therefore, it is actually very bad, but it was released the earliest, so it is used by the most people. It supports long file names and does not support Chinese. But if you use the modified nls file, you can see the Chinese name, but you cannot operate it.

3. paragon series
This series supports reading and writing of ntfs/ext2/ext3 and hidden partitions. It currently does not seem to support Chinese, occupies less memory, and supports long file names. mount everything for dos is ifs for dos, which is a command-line program; partition explorer is a graphical interface file manager.

4. Also mention two that the landlord did not mention, one is btini.exe of partition magic 8, and one is omnifs.exe of ghost 8. They are respectively the kernels of two famous programs.
These two programs can read and write ntfs partitions under DOS, but cannot mount partitions. Reading and writing is carried out through the command parameters of the two programs, so the operation is more complicated. btini.exe can only copy files from ntfs or copy files to ntfs, with weak functions; omnifs.exe has stronger functions, and has commands such as copy, dir, ren, del for operation.
The uniqueness of omnifs.exe is that it uses the kernel of ghost 8.x, can really support the operation of Chinese names, and can access USB disks without loading USB drivers.
Both have an obvious shortcoming, that is, each operation command is equivalent to loading a driver once and unloading a driver once, so it is slow and not suitable for occasions that need to access a large number of files and perform many read and write operations. For the URLs of the two, you can see this post:
http://www.cn-dos.net/forum/viewthread.php?tid=16645

5. Read-only programs ntfsdos, ntfsread
One is command line and the other is graphical interface. Because it is a read-only program, the restrictions are too large, and the usage is not very much.

Re fujianabc:

Thanks for the information you provided!

The test report I envision will include several aspects such as the version of each software, size, memory usage, command - line syntax, NTFS read - write performance, long filename support, multi - language support, and usability, etc.

Hope everyone can provide more information!

What does "mount" mean under DOS?

There is an obvious flaw in ntfs4dos. Even though files can be added and deleted, it's impossible to edit files (such as simple ini, txt files) on the NTFS partition using tools like VC - a major flaw!!

On NTFSPRO, the above operations can be carried out.

Other drivers haven't been successfully tested - failed : (

It's a pity that none of them succeeded for me. All of them crashed as soon as they encountered the Chinese name. As for btini.exe and omnifs.exe, I haven't used them yet!

Benefited a lot......^_^

Why can't I recognize NTFS as described when I use the Super 7.10 boot disk and emergency boot disk?

Test report of omnifs.exe: It can support NTFS operations and recognize large NTFS partitions, but there is a problem now: large hard drives in FAT32 format (mine has only 2 partitions of 30G and 25G) cannot be recognized and cannot be read or written! But small FAT32 partitions can be read and written normally! This is very critical, so this command cannot be written into the batch file!

Reasons for the problem: 1. Maybe DOS does not support large partitions
2. Maybe omnifs.exe itself has defects!

Where can I download omnifs? Is ghost able to read and write NTFS because of this?

Finally downloaded it, going to study it

Originally posted by 0451lym at 2006-11-17 03:46:
omnifs.exe test report: It can support NTFS operations and recognize large NTFS partitions. But now there is a problem: large FAT32 formatted hard drives (mine have only two partitions, 30G and 25G respectively) cannot be recognized, and cannot be read or written...

Tested today, I used omnifs in ghost11, which can support reading and writing my 31GB fat partition.

Originally posted by lianjiang2004 at 2007-5-7 04:17 PM:

Today I tested, and I used OmniFS from Ghost 11, which can support reading and writing to my 31 GB FAT partition.

Thank you for your test. I have decided to use OmniFS for my Ghost backup CD.

I can't use it, is there any expert to teach me

Haha. Good post. Thanks. Why is there no one continuing to post test reports?