How to access HPFS from Windows 2000

By Timo Maier‎

I've tested the following successfully with Windows 2000 SP2 german, HPFS and HPFS386. I can't promise that this will work on your system, too. This is a dangerous procedure, so backup your whole system before you apply this patch.

Someone sent me a mail, he told me that this only works if the HPFS partition is smaller than 8GB.

Use it at your own risk


 * 1) Download hpfsw2k.zip download
 * 2) Unzip hpfsw2k.zip and copy RS.DLL and patched PINBALL.SYS to /WINNT/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS
 * 3) Enter the information from hpfs.reg (included in hpfsw2k.zip) into the registry (just doubleclick it)
 * 4) Reboot
 * 5) Mount your HPFS volumes