>NTFSDOS Professional at www.winternals.com does exactly that. It works great...
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>>Is it passable to make a boot diskette for Windows NT 2000 and then access a NTFS partision?

Yes - Win2K will permit you to create a boot disk set that will get you to the Recovery desktop, at which point you can successfully access NTFS volumes, although only a console is available (no GUI.)

It's not a single disk - my recollection is that it's a set of 4 3.5" diskettes. As someone else mentioned, there are commercial solutions to this as well; in addition to NTFSDOS professional, mentioned previously, I use ERD Commander Pro from winternals, which offers a great deal more functionality than NTFSDOS, including the ability to muck with ACLs.