Publisher's Description
From Active Data Recovery Software:
NTFS Reader for DOS is a freeware tool that provides read access to NTFS partitions within the MS-DOS environment. You can preview files on NTFS and copy files from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives. Product's interface is easy-to-use. Can be run from DOS bootable floppy. These important features allow you to: save and run from bootable floppy; display complete physical and logical drive information; support IDE / ATA / SCSI drives; support large (more than 8GB) hard drives. The product features support NTFS, NTFS5 file systems for reading; support FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 file systems for data writing; support compressed and fragmented files on NTFS; support partitions created in MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; display non-English and long file names; preview file(s)/folder(s) before copying; support search by file name or mask; display content of the file in Hex/Text mode by Disk Viewer.
Version 1.0.2 features minor improvements and bug fixes.
More Popular System Utilities downloads
- Glary Utilities
230,823 downloads
- MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition
52,838 downloads
- Auslogics Disk Defrag
41,350 downloads
- Pandora Recovery
19,555 downloads
- Glary Utilities Pro
13,481 downloads
-
All versions:
4.0 starsout of 27 votes
-
Current version:
4.0 starsout of 26 votes
-
My rating:
Write review
-
"It Sees only (Windows/DOS) formatted disks/partitions"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Pros
It gives the current state of the internal disk, in FAT 1 and FAT 2.
Cons
If there are raw partitions on the Harddisk, then the software does not see it.
So if there is a bug within the root or Rigid Data Block (Root of the hard disk partition which makes the data "raw" it can't be solved. )Summary
In my situation i can't use the software. Within my PC there is 6 GB not accessable because the data is raw. If RigiDataBlocks are invalid then there is no way for to salve them.
-
"Works but hs quirks"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Pros
Intuitive, works and is free
Cons
Like the other reviewers, lack of support for writing long file names is a real bummer. Less annoying but disappointing is the needs for a FAT32 partition to write to.
-
"I got my files back"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Pros
Was able to get all of my files back off my crashed IBM 75GXP hard drive.
I wrote a review of my experience at:
squidoo.com/Hard_Drive_Data_Recovery
Cons
It truncated long file names, and took a long time, but it was well worth it.
-
"Free (demo) version limits recovery file size to 64KB"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Pros
Works OK for small files, but...
Cons
I need to recover large .JPG and .MOV files.
-
"Only program that allowed me recover 25 Mb of files from the hard drive"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Pros
Whole program fit on a 1.44 Mb bootable disk. Select and copy functions worked well. Displays long file names.
Cons
Displays long file names but doesn't preserve them for copied files. Can only transfer files to floppy disks or another hard drive; support for CD writer or USB flash memory would be helpful.
-
"if you're desperate and nothing else works.. give it a shot."
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Pros
It.. starts up. And it's free. I assume it works in some cases. It also runs (only) in DOS so it doesn't require a bootable drive, which would be incredibly convenient if it found anything.
Cons
Trying to recover a corrupted hard drive (NTFS) - Downloaded this. It's hard to run and turned out to be essentially useless in my case. Jumped through hoops to run it only to be told that it couldn't read my drive at all. I got better results from basic, unregistered File Scavenger. Try some other options first.
-
"if your accsess dined to 1 file or foleder in ntfs hdd format, after chang win"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Pros
if your accsess dined to 1 file or foleder in ntfs hdd format, after chang win
-
"Awesome..I RECOMMEND"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Pros
This is an awesome program,Before this time i never tried recovering files and just formatted my drive whenver it crashed, but this time i had to.it works very well. yo ujust have to have a FAT/Fat32 drive handy.
Cons
Have to have Fat system drive handy.
Slow,tested your patience but worth it.
-
"A data recovery marvel!"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Summary
I lost everything after a hard drive crash--and nothing worked to get it back up. Before I formatted it and lost all of my work (of course my back-up failed at the same time!), I used this program to fetch all of the files I needed and send them to disk.
-
"Does the job"
Version: Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2
Summary
I only used the NTFS reader program, but it was able to recover everyting I needed.
I booted a computer with corrupt HD to the local server and ran NTFSReader from there.
Maybe it was a bit slow, but I got what I needed. I also didn't run into any problems noted by others about it not being free or missing data.
Add Your Review
Submit your reply
E-mail this review
Report offensive content
See more CNET content tagged:
Previous Versions:
