Re: Can't copy a file on hard disk

Accessing an NTFS partition from DOS is difficult but not impossible.
Sysinternals, acquired by Micro$oft in the last year or two, sold an NTFS DOS
module that allowed both reading and writing NTFS partitions from DOS land.
There is also a free read-only NTFS DOS module.

By comparision, it is very easy to read and write NTFS partitions from the world
of Linux... Ben Myers

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:01:54 GMT, DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote:

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:17:28 -0400, "Christopher Muto"
<muto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:55:49 -0400, "olfart" <olfart65@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


"Christopher Muto" <muto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i would suspect that the file is simply in use by some other program.
windows 2000 dose sometimes say 'i/o error' rather than 'file in use.'
restart the computer and try again before starting any other
application.
if that dosen't work then tell us exactly what the file is - ie. is it a
outlook or outlook express file?
good luck.

try it in Safe Mode


I tried it. The file still can't be copied. Thanks.

boot to a command (dos) prompt, navigate to the folder where the file is
located, make a copy of the file to a new name in that folder.


I don't think it's possible to boot to DOS with Windows 2000. The page
below says you can't do it. Windows 2000 is on an NTFS partition but
the file is on a FAT 32 partition so maybe I could do this with any
DOS boot disk?

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-106
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