Hi, On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Ray Davison <ray...@charter.net> wrote: > > Is it possible to load an exe file system driver in dconfig.sys?
Did you mean FDCONFIG.SYS? (IIRC, dconfig.sys is from DR-DOS.) > I have a DOS HPFS driver that works OK, but I would like it to get a > drive letter before the DVDs. I don't know if drive letter assignment is configurable. I'd doubt it. You might?? be able to adjust some things with certain (third-party?) tools, but I'm not sure offhand if that's a reasonable expectation. > What is available for reading NTFS used in WXP, W7? I think you're barking up the wrong tree. But also I'm not experienced enough in trying all the various file systems and drivers and OSes. So maybe I am the wrong person to be replying here. I don't want to discourage you, just make sure you're asking the right questions. I just think it's not well-supported, if at all, to read foreign file systems under DOS. There isn't a lot of active work in that area. I think it's not a priority. In other words, it's probably more reasonable (or at least more commonly accepted) to use a proper OS with proper first-party support for that file system, even if only to transfer the relevant data to a more suitable disk (or file system) for whatever OS you're trying to run (e.g. FAT32 for FreeDOS). Even Linux only "mostly" supports NTFS (r/w) except for compression and encryption, last I heard. FreeBSD might have support for HPFS too, but it may be readonly. In other words, it's not a good first choice to try to use FreeDOS to read all these other systems. I have no idea if eComStation supports FAT32 nowadays (probably), but if you want to use HPFS (full time, not just once or twice, read + write), that OS would be my first choice. And of course if you don't want to use the obvious modern Windows for NTFS (5.x or whatever), you're stuck with Linux or FreeBSD or similar. I'm not sure other tools are as trustworthy. Make sure you have backups before doing anything heavy-duty! If you can bootup a suitable foreign OS and migrate the data to FAT32, "most" OSes (even latest eCS, presumably) can access it (read + write), and you can boot up FreeDOS and access it (full-time) with no problems. That is presumably the "preferred" solution here. Maybe not what you want to hear, but we can't have everything. :-/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
