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Is it possible to read or write data on a NTFS disk from another OS?

April 26, 2017Data disk NTFS OS possible read write

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Is it possible to read or write data on a NTFS disk from another OS?

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Yes. There are at least two different OSes that is capable of this, MS-DOS and Linux. It is possible to use the NTFSDOS.exe program from MS-DOS to read information of a NTFS formatted disk. 2.4 RegistryAs shipped from Microsoft, most versions of NT have very weird access control list settings on the system registry keys. Some registry keys have had permissions that let everyone access and change them over the network. Dan Shearer wrote in message <"ydd1N.0.UA4.0BSJo"@suburbia> dated Sat, 28 Sept 1996 14:05:28 +0930 > here’s some more: > ppl can read portions of the registry remotely (via regedt32.exe). By default they can _write_ to it too, at least under 3.51 the default permissions gave Everyone write access to quite a few things. The canonical example was (is) the key that determines the association between an application and its extension in file manager. That can be changed by an unpriveliged, even unknown user with access to regedt32 on a connecte