Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cosgwell at www.sysinternals.com have release several useful freeware or inexpensive utility useful to users of NT and NT administrators. In particular, they have a free read-only driver, NTFSDOS, that is able to mount NTFS drives for transparent access. It makes NTFS drives appear indistinguishable from standard FAT drives, providing the ability to navigate, view and execute programs. This is useful in a dual-boot environment and in recovery situations. If you need to write to the NTFS partition, there is a version with that capability that can be purchased.

It goes without saying that this driver is a wonderful way to hack an NT box without physical security. I have used it as a basic tool to break NT server security when all admin-level accounts get locked out or lost.

NTFS Tips:

Managing Shared Resources and Resource Security
Choosing Between FAT and NTFS
Web versus NTFS Permissions
NTFS Security, Part 2: Implementing NTFS Special Permissions on Your Web Site
Getting the Most from IIS Security
NTFS Permissions
Cancel an NTFS conversion
NT equivalents of NetWare Rights
Access NTFS from DOS, Win95 or Win98 using NTFSDOS driver
NTFS Last Access TimeStamp
xcopy - keep attributes
How To Remove Files with Reserved Names such as LPT1 or PRN
NTFS Metadata files
Disable NTs 8.3 aliases for LFNs under NTFS
Streams displays which NTFS files have alternate streams content
VolumeID changes NT and FAT volume IDs
Create a NTFS partition over 4GB during installation
Windows NT NTFS Directory Compression

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