XP NTFS access from DOS

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Becuase there are some operations better performed from DOS without Windows in the background, I have tried looking at my hard drives after booting from an MSDOS system disc formatted from within XP. I get an A:> prompt - but no access to any hard drives.

If I include an autoexec.bat file with a LASTDRIVE command, it makes no difference. I suspect the reason may be that I have configured my machine to use NTFS access for the hard drives. If this is the explanation, is there any way around it?

Thanks

Philip

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Don't know much about floppy boot disks or commands.

Have used a win98 boot floppy to fdisk /mbr to get an XP drive to boot.

Does the " A:\> dir C: " [enter] show anything.

Use the dir (directory) command to list the contents of a directory. File names and their corresponding sizes will be displayed. For example, to list the contents of the C drive:

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You can get Avira NTFS4DOS (freeware), it makes a bootable floppy.

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Thanks Andavari

Philip