NtfsProgs for Windows

NtfsProgs: utilities for the NTFS file system

Version

1.9.0

Description

ntfsprogs is a suite of NTFS utilities based around a shared library. The tools are available for free and come with full source code.

• mkntfs: Create an NTFS volume on a partition
• ntfscat: Print a file on the standard output
• ntfsclone: Efficiently backup/restore a volume at the sector level
• ntfscluster: Given a cluster, or sector, find the file
• ntfsfix: Forces Windows to check NTFS at boot time
• ntfsinfo: Dump a file's attributes, completely
• ntfslabel: Display or set a volume's label
• ntfslib: Move all the common code into a shared library
• ntfsls: List directory contents
• ntfsresize: Resize an NTFS volume
• ntfsundelete: Find files that have been deleted and recover them
• ntfswipe: Write zeros over the unused parts of the disk
• ntfsdefrag: Defragment files, directories and the MFT
• ntfsck: Perform consistancy checks on a volume
• nttools: Command-line tools to view/change an offline NTFS volume, e.g. ntfscp, ntfsgrep, ntfstouch, ntfsrm, ntfsrmdir, ntfsmkdir
• ntfsdiskedit: Walk the tree of NTFS ondisk structures (and alter them)

Be careful with these utilities, they might damage the filesystem, or your hard disk !

Homepage

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net

Download

If you download the Setup program of the package, the dependencies, as listed below under Requirements, are already included, apart from msvcrt.dll. If you download the package as Zip files, then you must download and install the dependencies zip file.

You can also download the files from the GnuWin32 files page.

Installation and Usage

General Installation Instructions

Requirements

• MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP with msvcrt.dll. If msvcrt.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get it from Microsoft or by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
• libintl
• libiconv
• regex-spencer
• libgw32c (for developing with the NtfsProgs library)