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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: DOS and HPFS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.174553.24963@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 17:45:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.065952.12344@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet wrote:
- >> If I format my hard drive as one large partition, and use HPFS, does that
- >> mean that I cannot use a DOS prompt anymore, since DOS will only recognize
- >> FAT? How about DOS in a Window?
- >> Or is the OS2 prompt *completely* DOS compatible?
- >
- >Running a DOS window from OS/2 will give you access to your HPFS
- >partition with no problems. Usually almost everything you would want to
- >do in a DOS window you can do in an OS/2 window anyway.
- >
- >The only time you can't access the HPFS drive is if you boot DOS from a
- >floppy (or another HDD) or if you boot a specific DOS version into a VDM
- >through a DOS image.
-
- Nope. If you boot a specific DOS version into a VDM through a DOS
- image, you can access the HPFS volumes. You have to place the
- FSFILTER.SYS file in the boot image's config.sys file (and copy the
- driver to the image). After this, you'll be able to access the OS/2
- volumes (they look to DOS like network drives). When you do this, the
- A: drive will be pointing to the image file instead of to your A:
- drive - you can use the FSACCESS.EXE program to reconnect the A: drive
- with A: (eliminating access to the image file)
-
-
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