Boot Disk

Windows XP Home.
I want to boot to command prompt and access my hard drive.
I followed the instructions from Microsoft's pages to create an NTFS boot disk.
It boots, but can only see the A Drive.
Is this as it should be, or should I be able to access the C: drive?
Earl

Windows XP Home.
I want to boot to command prompt and access my hard drive.
I followed the instructions from Microsoft's pages to create an NTFS boot
disk.
It boots, but can only see the A Drive.
Is this as it should be, or should I be able to access the C: drive?
Earl

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Seeing that there are tens of thousands of Microsoft web pages, it's a
little hard to know what page you refer to. Here are a few ways to access
your hard disk outside Windows:
- Boot your machine with your WinXP installation CD to get into the Recovery
Console.
- Boot it with a Win98 boot diskette from www.bootdisk.com, then run
ntfsdos.exe from www.sysinternals.com so that you can see your NTFS
partitions.
- Connect the disk as a slave disk to some other WinXP PC.

Windows XP Home.
I want to boot to command prompt and access my hard drive.
I followed the instructions from Microsoft's pages to create an NTFS boot
disk.
It boots, but can only see the A Drive.
Is this as it should be, or should I be able to access the C: drive?
Earl



A win9x boot disk will not be able to "see" an NTFS partition

either use your XP cd to boot to the repair console

or install the repair console as a boot option


A Google search will give you instructions

You never mentioned what kind of drives you have IDE, SATA etc... It does matter. If you have a SATA drive that is run in the advanced mode normal drivers will not see it at all, so you would have to create a boot disk with the advanced drives loaded to see the drive.

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Windows XP Home.
I want to boot to command prompt and access my hard drive.
I followed the instructions from Microsoft's pages to create an NTFS boot disk.
It boots, but can only see the A Drive.
Is this as it should be, or should I be able to access the C: drive?
Earl

Windows XP Home.
I want to boot to command prompt and access my hard drive.
I followed the instructions from Microsoft's pages to create an NTFS boot
disk.
It boots, but can only see the A Drive.
Is this as it should be, or should I be able to access the C: drive?


The chances are that you have made a regular DOS boot disc. If so, then
this will not be able to access your C: drive which doubtless is a NTFS
formatted drive. It is also possible that your C: drive is a SATA drive in
which case it is possible that the DOS based disc that you created doesn't
have a suitable driver (though some modern BIOSes provide support).