re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders
Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 6:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(22035 messages posted)
Well, if you are a really persevering person, you have a lifetime's worth of challenge
in front of you.
On Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 2:41 pm, Norm wrote:
>My Windows 98SE and Windows XP partitions on drive C:, as well as both external
hard
>drives are formatted to FAT32. This was necessary to enable me to boot to pure DOS,
>as one of the three drive C: boot options on my current system; which is what I
want,
>and need. Ths current system is also capable of booting to pure DOS to A: drive
(floppy).
>
>I have successfully used attribute.exe to remove the system and hidden file attributes
>from files in the \windows folders of the Windows 98SE partition, after booting
to
>that partition. This is the method I used to back up my earlier system to external
>drives. That system could only boot to Windows 98SE and pure DOS.
>
>I can also successfully do the same with the \windows folders of the Windows 98SE
>partition on my current system; bootable also to pure DOS, and Windows XP.
>
>But using attribute.exe to remove the system and hidden file attributes from files
>in the \windows folders, after booting to the Windows XP partition has not been
successful.
>And that's the rub.
>
>I have not been able to determine why this is so, and only so for the Windows XP
>partition.
>
>Norm
>
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