FWIW, I didn't need the bitlocker key unless they set a pin. At least with ntfs-3g. But, I suppose that is a subject for a not-Dos forum.
Many years ago, I tried all the DOS NTFS drivers. I found the one by Paragon Software to work the best. (it was hidden in a bootdisk in one of their downloads) I recompiled chntpw for 16 bit. (Struggled - not a programmer) As I recall, it worked great on Xp and 7, but not beyond. I don't think anybody has written a driver that will read/write the later NTFS spec. Even the most erudite PC guys were impressed by how fast I could blank an admin password. Sure could have used something like that fast last Friday. (And a magic wand) On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 12:05 PM Liam Proven via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 23:13, Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > How many of you woke up to the CrowdStrike debacle Friday morning and, > after making minced oaths, solemnly proclaimed "If we still had Fat32 and > BIOS, I could fix this with FreeDos in 20 seconds flat!" > > True enough. > > And of course there are ways to not only read but write an NTFS drive from > DOS: > https://smallvoid.com/article/dos-mount-ntfs.html > > You'd need write access because the fix required deleting a file. > > But the snag is that these days Windows 10/11 encrypts the disk by > default with Bitlocker, and without the keys, no other OS could access > the drive to fix it. > > So, yes, nice idea, but in practice flawed... > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 > Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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