User manual WINTERNALS 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. Winternals Software LP Page 1 NTFS for Win98 2 Requirements NTFS for Win98 works with the following versions of NTFS: NTFS for Windows NT 4. 0, SP3 and higher NTFS for Windows 2000, Beta 3, RC1, RC2 NTFS for Win98 works on the following versions of Windows: Windows 95 Windows 95 OSR2 Windows 98 Windows 98 SE Winternals Software LP Page 2 NTFS for Win98 3 Approach NTFS for Win98 takes a unique approach to providing cross-platform file system support. [. . . ] 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. You may specify either the system directory of a Windows NT/2000 installation (e. g. c:\winnt), or a directory into which you've copied the necessary files. The files that you must make available to NTFS for Win98 are: NTFS. SYS NTOSKRNL. EXE AUTOCHK. EXE NTDLL. DLL C_437. NLS C_1252. NLS L_INTL. NLS this file is located at winnt>\system32\drivers\ntfs. sys this file is located at <winnt>\system32\ntoskrnl. exe this file is located at <winnt>\system32\autochk. exe this file is located at <winnt>\system32\ntdll. dll this file is located at <winnt>\system32\c_437. nls this file is located at <winnt>\system32\c_1252. nls this file is located at <winnt>\system32\l_intl. nls <winnt> designates the system directory of the Windows NT/2000 installation that contains the NTFS driver you normally use to access your NTFS drives. The setup procedure allows you to assign drive letters to NTFS drives that NTFS for Win98 mounts. Simply enter a string in the drive-letter selection entry that designates, in order, the drive letters for NTFS for Win98 to assign. For example, if you want the first NTFS drive mounted to have a drive letter of `D' and the second to have a drive letter of `T', you would enter "dt" (without the quotation marks). Note that the entry is case-insensitive. Leaving the entry blank has NTFS for Win98 assign the first available drive letter to each mounted NTFS drive. Winternals Software LP Page 6 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. Winternals Software LP Page 7 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. The NTFS for Win98 setup program adds the execution of NTFSCHK to your AUTOEXEC. BAT file so that the consistency of your NTFS drives is checked every time you boot into Windows 95/98. You may also run NTFSCHK from DOS before Windows 95/98 starts, from a DOS-box command prompt, or by selecting the NTFSCHK icon in the NTFS for Win 98 program group in the Start menu. When NTFSCHK runs from AUTOEXEC. BAT and when you select the icon NTFSCHK runs in read-only mode. See the options below for running NTFSCHK in repair mode. In some cases NTFSCHK will indicate that it cannot lock the specified drive(s). This condition results when applications or Windows has active handles to open files on the NTFS drive for which NTFSCHK reports the condition. If the applications in question do not close their handles, or Windows keeps open handles, you must reboot the computer and run NTFSCHK before the drive is accessed by applications or Windows, or reboot into Windows NT/2000 and perform a CHKDSK operation there. While NTFSCHK scans a drive that drive will not be accessible. [. . . ] If set, NTFS for Win98 will immediately write any NTFS disk modifications to disk instead of buffering the operations in the Windows 98 file system cache. If set, no disk modifications of NTFS drives occur, even though it will appear that they do. Note that performing a large amount of modifications on NTFS drives when this setting is enabled can lead to a crash, since NTFS will eventually encounter disk blocks with information inconsistent with what it thinks it has written. Default=0. ReadOnly CheckpointInterval NTFS is a logging file system, meaning that it maintains updates to metadata structures (like directories and the Master File Table) in a log file before the changes have been fully committed to disk. [. . . ]