So I uninstall the software, and delete the download files without any problem, since I only want to try booting Win98 from USB HDD for my own experimentation (fun), there is no real need for accessing NTFS, at least no write it "automagically" loads the needed drivers at boot time.Īh OK I understand now that this is the real trick. This also explain why we can found much more Google links about read-only versions (official freeware) and the read-write one. Probably in one Google link I found free download instead of freeware (as often these links try to cheat you between free download and freeware status). So it looks like that the version I download is not freeware. The copyright year is xxxx-2002, No mention of freeware was found, only some mentions about ERD Commander, 10 seats etc. So I uninstall then re-install it to read carefully the license agreement (several pages) displayed at start of installation. From the online help and any kind of About screen I did not see anything about freeware usage. The fact that it asks not for registration or keycode during install means nothing with regards to its licensing status. I do own an original copy/license for it dating back to 2000 or 2001, and sure I can find, should I want to, the READ/WRITE driver on some sites I won't mention, point is whether it has been releeased as Free/Freeware/Open Source/Public Domain or whatever. That is the part I did not know about, and for which I would like a link as a confirmation, as far as I know the READ ONLY driver is, and has been ALWAYS freeware from sysinternals, whilst the READ/WRITE version has been (till now? ) a Commercial Software from Winternals, that has not been available separately from ERD Commander (or other Winternals tools) in the last few years. NTFS support: this is done with the now free read/write NTFS for Windows 98 from Winternals. If I can find it I wil update this post, but for sure I found it by using Google. Version 1.03ro is read-only, there is another version 2.0 with read-write, without any registration or code asked during setup. Unfortunately I did not write out the download link, but there are many links found with Google.
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