>a machine has UEFI with Secure Boot then it won't boot DOS anyway, so >that strongly points to the machine you tried on being older. I was using Linux. I only needed the long key on the computer that specified a user password. (Which password did not work in dislocker, I believe thanks to TPM) I reserve the right to be proved wrong. After all, I'm into FreeDos and Linux. I have to beg and scrounge for remote access to win 10/11 on uefi to test. Liked your articles, for what that's worth. But, again, this is a FreeDos forum, and I do have one last very brief thought on that subject:
>The Paragon NTFS driver for Linux has now been built into the Linux >kernel, since version 5.15: As their DOS NTFS driver appears to be abandonware, I wonder if we could get them to release the source code for that as well? On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 12:36 PM Liam Proven via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 15:44, Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > 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. > > As far as I can tell, it's only fairly recently -- since UEFI and > SecureBoot became common -- that Windows >=10 does this by default. If > a machine has UEFI with Secure Boot then it won't boot DOS anyway, so > that strongly points to the machine you tried on being older. > > > Many years ago, I tried all the DOS NTFS drivers. I found the one by > Paragon Software to work the best. > > The Paragon NTFS driver for Linux has now been built into the Linux > kernel, since version 5.15: > > https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/github_merges_useless_garbage_says/ > > It does full read/write. I've tested it and it works great. You can > even install Linux onto an NTFS partition! > > https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/22/install_linux_on_ntfs/ > > (That is one of my articles.) > > -- > 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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