NTFS for Win98 User’s Guide Winternals Software LP 3101 Bee Caves Road, Suite 150 Austin, Texas 78746 (512) 330-9130 (512) 330-9131 Fax www.winternals.
NTFS for Win98 Table of Contents 1 Introduction................................................................................... 1 2 Requirements................................................................................ 2 3 Approach....................................................................................... 3 4 Limitations .................................................................................... 4 5 Recommended Configuration ...........................................
NTFS for Win98 1 Introduction Welcome to NTFS for Win98. NTFS for Win98 is a NTFS file system driver for Windows 95 and Windows 98. Once installed, any NTFS drives present on your system will be fully accessible as native Windows 98 volumes. With NTFS for Win98, users can share data in dual boot environments and facilitate migration to Windows NT/2000. Please read this entire guide before using NTFS for Win98.
NTFS for Win98 2 Requirements NTFS for Win98 works with the following versions of NTFS: ♦ NTFS for Windows NT 4.
NTFS for Win98 3 Approach NTFS for Win98 takes a unique approach to providing cross-platform file system support. Rather than implement code to read and write NTFS drives, NTFS for Win98 uses the NTFS and NTOSKRNL system files from a Windows NT or Windows 2000 configuration. NTFS for Win98 wraps the Windows NT/2000 NTFS driver in a run-time environment that simulates the Windows NT environment the NTFS driver is written to use.
NTFS for Win98 4 Limitations Because the Windows 95/98 environment is different than that of Windows NT/2000, the level of NTFS support that NTFS for Win98 provides is not equivalent to that provided on Windows NT/2000. For example, NTFS for Win98 does not enforce the Windows NT/2000 security model. All files and directories are accessible, regardless of their security permissions settings. In addition, NTFS for Win98 is not compatible with Windows 2000’s Encrypting file System (EFS).
NTFS for Win98 5 Recommended Configuration Do not convert your first partition, or your Windows 95/98 boot partition (the one with \windows on it), to NTFS as there is no support in Windows 95 or Windows 98 for reading NTFS drives during the boot sequence. For maximum compatibility in dual boot systems, the recommended partition configuration is to maintain a FAT partition as the first partition on the primary drive.
NTFS for Win98 6 Installation Before you run the NTFS for Win98 installation program, you must have access to a number of files (listed below) from the Windows NT/2000 installation you use to access your NTFS drives. This means that if the files are located on a NTFS drive you will have to copy them to a FAT drive accessible from Windows 98. During the NTFS for Win98 setup procedure you will be prompted for the location of these files.
NTFS for Win98 After the setup procedure is complete you are prompted to reboot your computer. The next time you boot the Windows 95 or 98 system on which you installed NTFS for Win98 you will have access to your computer’s NTFS volumes. You may rerun the configuration utility at any time to select different drive letters or a different NTFS file.
NTFS for Win98 7 CHKDSK NTFS for Win98 includes a scandisk for NTFS drives named NTFSCHK. In the same way that NTFS for Win98 creates an NT-like environment for the NTFS driver, NTFSCHK creates an NT-like environment for the AUTOCHK.EXE (CHKDSK) program of a Windows NT/2000 installation. The files that make up this environment include AUTOCHK.EXE, NTDLL.DLL, and three character mapping files, C_437.NLS, C_1252.NLS, and L_INTL.NLS.
NTFS for Win98 NTFSCHK’s command-line usage is as follows (selecting the NTFSCHK program icon results in a check of all the computer’s NTFS drives): ntfschk [/?] [/s] [/f] [/q] [ drive letter: | * ] /? Displays NTFSCHK usage. /s This switch has NTFSCHK display the list of detected NTFS drives. Use this command to determine which drive letters correspond to NTFS volumes. /f Unless you specify this flag NTFSCHK runs in read-only mode, where it detects and reports errors but does not correct them.
NTFS for Win98 8 Advanced Settings The following Registry configuration settings are used by NTFS for Win98. You should only change their default values for trouble-shooting purposes or upon direction from Winternals Software technical support. Certain values may result in poor performance or data loss on NTFS drives. All values reside under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Winternals\NTFSforWin98. These settings are accessible from the Advanced dialog of the NTFS for Win98 configuration utility.
NTFS for Win98 9 Technical Support ♦ If you encounter a problem while using NTFS for Win98 and wish to receive technical assistance, please visit http://www.winternals.com/es/support/getsupport.asp or send e-mail to support@winternals.com ♦ To search the Winternals Knowledge Base, find answers to Frequently Asked Questions, or download free updates to this product, please visit our Support pages at http://www.winternals.com/es/support ♦ Telephone support is not available for NTFS for Win98.
