Re: Root kits ...luvly !

Well ! ...seeing as the NTFS4DOS bootable floppy (made by the wizard
included with it), doesn't boot up properly, I made a bootable floppy from
my XP Home ed. SP2 system, and copied the ntfs4dos.exe, its' other *.exe's
....chkdsk.exe, 2 x defrag files onto it, in case I needed them.

I booted up with it, (lovely - now I'm told I'm booting from floppy into
Windows Millenium [Version 4.90.3000] !!
I ran ntfs4dos and I can see all my drives ! BUT the keyboard and character
tables are all wrong and haven't been loaded correctly - I can't type a
tilde, in order to type startm~.bat ! So I suppose now I've got to tweak
config.sys / country.sys and autoexec.bat on floppy, and fiddle with
keyb.exe and mode.exe and CHCP437 etc. ...moan ....moan.. that I haven't
had to tweak for AGES ! :-) ...I can't remember all that syntax ! ...God
! MS will have me digging out my old copy of Quarterdeck in a minute !

regards, Richard


"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Leythos

I can already do that i..e. - boot to Safe Mode and copy the multi-av
directory onto a c:\drive etc.. What I was trying to do was, boot from
floppy, or bootable cd-r using Freedos such as that in NTFS4DOS, so that
I'm in an OS that definately hasn't been "hooked," and then run multi-av,
or the seperate command line scanners, (that I haven't yet collected),
that will also be burnt to cd-r, ...copy them onto C:\ etc. and work at a
DOS prompt.

While experimenting, one thing that's puzzling me, is that after booting
up from the NTFS4DOS bootable floppy, it take AGES to boot
up - -eventually I get a colourful screen asking me if I'm using it for
private or business use, where I have to type in "yes" and hit [Enter],
and I'm left with no access to hd partitions i.e. only drives A:\ and C:\
(a ramdrive) are accessible at the DOS prompt.

...oh well ...continuing to fiddle :-)

regards, Richard


"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <eCOviw6iGHA.4276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
..one thing that crosses my mind when using with DOS level progs. (such
as
multi-av), is "Oh dear - no ide/bus master drivers in use i.e. data
stream
down to a crawl \ on the ribbons !"

How would one boot from bootable-cd to a clean DOS os / or XP "Safe
Mode"
that loaded IDE drivers - and then could run multi-av a lot faster ? :-)

When I use Multi-AV, I download it to a clean machine, run all the
updates, burn the entire folder to a CD, and then take it to the machine
to be cleaned - boot in safe mode, copy the CD folder to the C:\
location (so that the folder is copied) and then run the different
scanners from the menu.


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