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NTFS adn ReactOS?

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:08 pm
by Ivanov
Hello, people!
I have tested ReactOS Live CD before some months and I didn`t have problems with access to my FAT32 HDD. Now, when I have HDD formated in NTFS file system and start Live CD of ReactOS I cannot eneter in any partition - I only can see drive letter and volume label. Why?
Please help me!
... and exuse me for very, very bad English.... :(

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:32 pm
by Gedi
There is no NTFS support in ROS at the moment.
It will hopefully come in future releases, maybe 0.5

For the time being, you'll need to run it on a FAT32 filesystem.

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:04 pm
by tonik
What are the chances of using Windows NTFS driver on ReactOS (for those who have a Windows license, of course)?

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:22 pm
by Stead
i'm guessing theres some sort of oi don't copy that with ms with that

but yea, if it is gonna be able to use windows drivers, why not windows filesystem drivers?!!!

worth looking into...for testing purposes of course :o

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:53 am
by uniQ
There's probably a part of the EULA against that, although I couldn't find it in a quick read-through.

-Q

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:34 pm
by tonik
uniQ wrote:There's probably a part of the EULA against that, although I couldn't find it in a quick read-through.
The Captive project has been around for quite a while and no one complained. It apparently uses some Wine and ReactOS (!) code and Microsoft's ntfs.sys. The latter is not distributed as part of the project, of course.

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:46 pm
by Gasmann
But captive also needs the original ntoskrnl.exe, doesn't it :?:

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:21 pm
by Epmak
gasmann wrote:But captive also needs the original ntoskrnl.exe, doesn't it :?:
I suppose that in future people will use ntfs only to reuse existing ntfs partition.
But if they created ntfs partition earlier then they allready have ntoskrnl.exe. 8)

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:51 pm
by GvG
gasmann wrote:But captive also needs the original ntoskrnl.exe, doesn't it :?:
No. Just the original ntfs.sys

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:09 pm
by MadRat
What file systems are planned?

The ability to read NTFS should suffice for most needs if there is some sort of legal barrier to using it. Its not like NTFS is perfect compared to some of the more open formats out there.

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:42 pm
by Pentiumforever
I have read that the wont to support FAT12/16/32, NTFS, exts/3 and ReiserFS!

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:23 pm
by uniQ
I think anyone can write a FS driver for NTs. Didn't someone do that for NT 4 and FAT32?

-uniQ

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:55 pm
by Pentiumforever
a driver to read can xou found here: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/fat32.shtml

and it exist a driver to read & write FAT 32, he cost 39$

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:35 pm
by niteice
I don't see why people would charge $39 for a driver for such a simple file system.

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:19 pm
by Gasmann
niteice wrote:I don't see why people would charge $39 for a driver for such a simple file system.
yes, and there are free alternatives :D