Free fat32 vs ntfs file system software for windows

Dual booting with Windows 95OSR2 and Windows98 just got more efficient! Another first from Sysinternals: a FAT32 file system driver for NT 4.0. Dual booting with Windows 95OSR2 and Windows98 just got more efficient!
FAT32 is a FAT32 file system driver for Windows NT 4.0. Once FAT32 is installed, any FAT32 drives present on your system will be fully accessible as native Windows NT volumes.
Recommended FAT32 Configuration
Do not convert your first partition, or your NT boot partition (the one with winnt on it), to FAT32 as there is no support in Windows NT 4.0 for reading FAT32 drives during the boot sequence.
For maximum compatibility in dual boot systems, the recommended partition configuration is to maintain a FAT partition as the first partition on the primary drive. This partition should contain Windows 95/98 as well as Windows NT and should not be used to store applications or data files. The rest of the primary disk and any other disks should be formatted with FAT32.
Setting up Your Partitions
FAT32 for Windows NT does not make it possible to format new FAT32 drives on your Windows NT system, just view existing FAT32 drives. If you wish to benifit from the space efficiency advantages FAT32 has over FAT16 drives and are setting up a new computer, follow these steps.
When you partition the drive create at least two partitions: one for system files and one for data files. You may also choose to create two partitions for system files: one for Windows 9x and one for Windows NT. Of course, you may wish to create multiple data file partitions.
Install Windows 9x first, placing its system files (the WINDOWS directory) on the first partition (the C: drive), which must be formatted as FAT16. Then format all the data drives as FAT32 drives. Finally, install Windows NT on either the C: drive, or the second system drive you created. The second system drive can be formatted as NTFS or FAT16. After installing FAT32 for Windows NT the data drives will be accessible from Windows NT.

NTFS Access 2.1 is a software bringing a solution for a Windows user who has lost access to their folders/files (user account folders in Documents And Settings cannot be accessible), for example, after system reinstallation, use NTFS Access to regain access. NTFS Access can be also helpful if you want to access to private folders/files of another system user account. This software can set new owner and full access rights. Program can give permissions recursively, so you do not have to repeat an action for each folder separately.

Optimum Data Recovery for NTFS Undelete - retrieve all your lost files and folders from NTFS file system Optimum Data Recovery is a well known data recovery company because of its reliable and secure data recovery services. We have data recovery labs in Houston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and London. Optimum offers free device checkup for all the storage devices.
We follow "No-Recovery No-Charge" policy and have been working in data recovery field for the past 15 years. Hard Drive data recovery, RAID Arrays recovery and data recovery of all storage media including removable devices is carried out by us.
Optimum Data Recovery for NTFS Undelete is a non-destructable application that will allow you to retrieve all your lost files and folders from NTFS file system in a short duration of time. This software has been designed keeping in mind the ease of usage of the user.
Main features:
- Provides data recovery from any storage media running NTFS File System.
- Allows you to browse your Drives and displays both un-deleted and deleted files.
- Recovers deleted files and folders even after the usage of Shift + Del Keys.
- Recovers deleted files and folders even after Recycle Bin has been emptied.
- Provides recovery of all file types.
- Recovers your deleted files and deleted directories of any type or size.
- Efficient directory Scanner, which scans your drive in a very short duration of time.
- Efficient directory Structure Builder that builds directory structure within minutes.
- Very simple User Interface. Recovers lost data in just two steps.
- View the files that are hidden by some other Utility.
- Windows Browser like Interface, which shortens the time for user training.
- Find deleted Files and directories with their exact long name.
- Drive Protection: System also locks the infected drives and doesn?t allow you to save recovered data on infected drives.
System requirements:
- RAM Requirement:
- Minimum 128 MB, 256 MB recommended
- Screen Resolution:
- Minimum 800 x 600
- Disk Capacity:
- 2MB to 3MB
- Processor:
- P-III or higher.

Ever wondered why you cant put NTFS on a floppy disk? Windows NT has never supported NTFS floppy disks, because Microsoft claims that floppy disks are too small for NTFS data structures. NTFSFlp is an application that will both format and enable NTFS support on floppy disks and proves this to be wrong. Now you can see for yourself why NTFS on floppies, while possible, is not a great idea.
Note: NTFSFlp should be run before you access your floppy drive for the first time after a reboot of your machine. If you mount a FAT drive and then run NTFSFlp, the FAT file system driver will crash the machine when the characteristics of the floppy drive change out from under it (see How It Works, below, for more information).
The first thing you will want to do is to format an NTFS floppy. Insert a floppy into your a: drive and enter "ntfsflp /f". Once the format is complete you will be able to access and write to the NTFS floppy in the same way as FAT floppies. You will notice is that there is significantly more disk activity, even when simple operations are performed, on the NTFS floppy than would occur on a FAT floppy. In addition, disk activity will continue for some time after you perform a modification of the data on the floppy. For this reason, I have included ntsync in this package, so that you can flush data onto an NTFS floppy before removing it.
NTFS floppy support must be enabled with NTFSFlp before you can access an NTFS floppy disk. Support is automatically enabled when you format an NTFS floppy, but can also be enabled by running NTFSFlp and not specifying any command-line arguments. You would need to do this if you created an NTFS floppy disk, rebooted the system and wished to access the floppy again.
NTFSFlp is a demonstration of NTFS floppy-disk support. It is not envisioned that anyone would want automatic NTFS floppy-disk support every time you run NT, so NTFSFlp must be used to manually enable support.
Windows NT actually goes to some lengths to prevent a user from creating an NTFS floppy disk. The first line of prevention is in the format utility. If a user specifies an NTFS format, format checks to make sure that the media is not a floppy. Then it checks to see if the medium is large enough to fit "minimum" NTFS on-disk data structures. Finally, it attempts to make an NTFS log file that is 2MB in size - an operation that will obviously fail on a 1.44MB floppy.
If you manage to get past these hurdles and get NTFS on a floppy, the NTFS driver itself will fail to mount floppy disks. Further, NTFS requires that the device driver for the media it is mounting implement the IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO device I/O control call, something that floppy disk drivers are not required to do (and generally dont).
Using SoftICE for Windows NT I was able to trick format into creating an NTFS floppy disk with a log file that is only 256KB in size. This is large enough for NTFS to be able to function, and leaves 1MB of space on the floppy after NTFS structures have been created. To format an NTFS floppy, NTFSFlp copies the image of the NTFS floppy I created onto other floppy disks.
To trick NTFS into mounting an NTFS floppy, NTFSFlp loads a device driver, flpflt.sys, that changes the characteristics of the floppy disk device so that it does not look like a floppy. Flpflt also intercepts Device I/O Control calls that are directed at the floppy and implements IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO. Note that flpflt.sys is not a filter driver - it reaches into the floppy0 device object and changes its characteristics, and replaces the IRP_MJ_DEVICE_CONTROL vector in the floppy drivers request handler table to point at its own. This technique is an example of another way to intercept and control requests that are sent to a device, and is in many senses actually more powerful than filtering in the traditional NTFilemon way.
NTFS floppy disks could be useful for storing compressed files on a floppy. In addition, NT 5.0 NTFS supports encryption, which would make it possible to have secure floppy disks.

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.
Products interface is easy-to-use. Can be run from DOS bootable floppy.
Software features:
Can be saved and run from bootable floppy (download boot disk image)
Displays complete physical and logical drive information
Supports IDE / ATA / SCSI drives
Supports large (more than 8GB) Hard Drive
Supports NTFS, NTFS5 file systems for reading
Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 file systems for data writing
Supports compressed and fragmented files on NTFS
Supports partitions created in MS-DOS, Windows XP.2000.NT.ME.98.95
Displays non-english and long file names
Ability to preview file(s)/folder(s) before copying
Supports search by file name or mask
Disk Viewer displays content of the file in Hex/Text mode

Spiff NTFS Explorer 1.0 is a helpful program to explore NTFS file system directly without going through the operating system. Shows all files, even those that are used by the file system itself. Inspect file system records and see all details including physical sector locations. .NET dll available for including functionality in your own applications. Undelete files, it does not matter if the deleted files were deleted through the recycle bin or not. Searching for deleted files is fast, the master file table records are searched, it does not take hours like some other products that scan the entire drive.

Data & Files Recovery 2.71 is a program for backing up important data lost due to drive format, virus problems, software corruption, file/directory deletion, file/directory corruption, etc. It can check your hard drive for damages and corruptions and recover the data back. It is easy to use, you only need 3 steps to recover lost data, no technical knowledge needed. It can save data to any windows version (including network drives, removable media, etc.).

MiMU Files Data Recovery recovers data from inaccessible, lost, missing, damaged or formatted drives and offers the fastest, most convenient and cost-effective solutions to clients. It has the ability to recover almost any type of lost files from servers, personal computers, laptops, iPods, USB Removeable devices, disks and many more. This utility's cheap price allows everyone to recover their most precious data which was lost, and yet to be found.

Major Features:

1. Undelete deleted or damaged NTFS/FAT32/FAT16/FAT12 partitions being detected after scan
2. Recover deleted files on IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives
3. Undelete files on removable devices (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital Camera Memory Cards, etc.)
4. Supports for external drives and USB Hard drives
5. Recovers files from deleted, damaged, formatted or reformatted partitions
6. Supports large (more than 500 GB) size hard drives
7. Supports FAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 file systems
8. Supports Windows 95/98/2000/XP/VISTA/2003 Server Operating Systems
9. Supports Basic and Dynamic Volumes
10. Supports localized and long filenames
11. Supports recovery of compressed, fragmented and encrypted files on NTFS
12. Recognizes file signatures when no file records exist, for most data types (Office docs, MP3, AVI, JPG, etc)
13. Scans partitions damaged by virus or with damaged MBR
14. Advanced search and filtering by file name and file type
15. Visible representation of file/folder recoverability
16. Ability to preview file contents before recovery
17. Files and folders can be recovered to any (local or network) drive accessible by operating system
18. Uninstaller is included
19. DEMO version can be registered with a key to become fully functional, no re-installation needed
20. DEMO version can be activated and used with full recovery capabilities instantly after purchasing

Enhancements:

• Version 2.71 supports Vista NTFS file system.

Requirements:

1. MiMU Files Data Recovery supports all major Microsoft Windows operating system platforms including:
   • Windows Vista
   • Windows XP
   • Windows 95
   • Windows 98
   • Windows Me
   • Windows 2000 Professional
   • Windows 2000 Server
   • Windows 2000 Advanced Server
   • Windows 2003 Server
2. If the Windows version you own is under Windows XP SP2, you need to make sure you install/installed Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86).