I don't think you can even do it with FAT, because if you are booted to DOS
you have no long file-name support.
The original bare-metal recovery Redbook from IBM had instructions for
something I think they called "tunneling", which would let you do a recovery
without long file-name support.

But it is so messy and requires so many steps, it is much worse than just
installing a new copy of NT, in my opinion.

Instead of avoiding it, look at ways to make it faster, such as using a
product like Ghost to lay down an already-prepared bootable NT disk....

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armstrong, Brad [SMTP:Brad.Armstrong AT CCRA-ADRC.GC DOT CA]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 3:00 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: NT Recovery: Boot Disks?
>
> Yes..I meant to say a FAT partition.  Anybody tried it?
>
> Brad Armstrong
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lloyd Dieter [mailto:dieter AT SNRGY DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 2:08 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: NT Recovery: Boot Disks?
>
>
> You might be able to get away with that if your disks are FAT formatted,
> but there's no way that I know of to do as you describe with NTFS format
> volumes.
>
> -Lloyd
>
>
> "Armstrong, Brad" wrote:
> >
> > Would it be possible to boot an NT server with a MS DOS Client network
> disk
> > configured with TCP/IP, then run a restore from the command line?  I'm
> > trying to figure out a way of not having to install a second copy of NT
> > before restoring a complete c: drive.
> >
> > Brad Armstrong
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> > brad.armstrong AT ccra-adrc.gc DOT ca
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