>>Winternals, the people who put out NTFSDOS, FAT32 for Windows NT 4.0, and ERD Commander, three of my favorite NT toys, has released NTFS for Win98 - you can use NTFS as a native file system for Win98! Just the ticket for people who insist on dual-booting NT4 and Win98, or Win2K and Win98. $49. www.winternals.com/products
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>>I know what I'll be playing with this weekend...
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>Very cool. I'm running Win2000 on several boxes and I can't get my damn CD-R drive to work on it, so I have a Win98 boot partition. With this I'll be able to get at the (large) NTFS partition to actually work with the files.
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Yep - exactly the ticket for this! I've played with it a bit this weekend, and it hasn't eaten anything, even the stripe set on my server. It's a definite improvement over using NTFSDOS to try to recover stuff from a fouled NTFS boot partition...

Regarding the CD-R; what are you using? I've not run into problems with my (now antique) HP 7201 and the stock drivers for the Adaptec HAs in RC2. If you're using something like CD Creator or DirectCD from Adaptec, there's no Win2K support yet AFAIK, but Win2K should understand the CD-R medium, at least with SCSI-2 compliant drives.

And then there's the lazy approach of keeping a box with Win98 or NT 4 and your CD-R up on your LAN! Accessing a share, both CD Creator and DirectCD don't care what the native file system looks like, as long as it can keep pace with the CD-R drive when recording to the media.

Adaptec put up a FAQ on CD-R; try http://www.adaptec.com/support/faqs/cdrindex.html