NTFS Reader for DOS (ver 1.0.2) Abandoned Freeware It would not be uncommon to find DOS readable documents on a NTFS (Windows NT) hard drive. NTFS Reader allows DOS to access a NTFS drive, including viewing the long file names. Your NTFS drive appears as a normal DOS drive, except that it cannot be written to (it essentially appears to DOS as if it was a CD-ROM drive).