Guest Tom L Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 I am upgrading an older Win2000 PC by adding an additional IDE new hard disk (250GB) having a active WinXP SP2 partition along with the active Win 2000 IDE partition on existing 80 Gb hard drive.: Hard Drive Configuration: Disk Drive 0: Partition 0 WINXP SP2/NTFS 3.01 file format (250GB) (IDE master) Disk Drive 1: Partition 0 Win2000/ NTFS file format 1.09 (80GB) (IDE slave) When booting into active Win2000 on hard drive 1, the Win2000 OS can recognize hard drive 0 (WinXP) and read files from WinXP drive 0. Win2000 list hard drive C (Win2000) and F (WinXP) as available. When booting into active WinXP SP2 on hard drive 0, the WinXP OS can not recognize hard drive 1 (Win2000) and only list hard drive C(WinXP) as available ! Can WinXP read other NTFS hard drives formatted with earlier NTFS file versions ?
Guest philo Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Dual Drive PC: WinXP Can Read/Recognize Win2000 Hard Drive ?? "Tom L" <TomL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ED2E69D8-8301-4C5E-941D-06905B0F5FDA@microsoft.com... > I am upgrading an older Win2000 PC by adding an additional IDE new hard disk > (250GB) having a active WinXP SP2 partition along with the active Win 2000 > IDE partition on existing 80 Gb hard drive.: > > Hard Drive Configuration: > > Disk Drive 0: Partition 0 WINXP SP2/NTFS 3.01 file format (250GB) (IDE > master) > Disk Drive 1: Partition 0 Win2000/ NTFS file format 1.09 (80GB) (IDE > slave) > > > When booting into active Win2000 on hard drive 1, the Win2000 OS can > recognize hard drive 0 (WinXP) and read files from WinXP drive 0. Win2000 > list hard drive C (Win2000) and F (WinXP) as available. > > When booting into active WinXP SP2 on hard drive 0, the WinXP OS can not > recognize hard drive 1 (Win2000) and only list hard drive C(WinXP) as > available ! > > Can WinXP read other NTFS hard drives formatted with earlier NTFS file > versions ? > > > Yes, XP can read a win2k drive (NTFS or Fat32) You may have to go into disk management and adssign it a drive letter >
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Dual Drive PC: WinXP Can Read/Recognize Win2000 Hard Drive ?? "Tom L" <TomL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ED2E69D8-8301-4C5E-941D-06905B0F5FDA@microsoft.com... >I am upgrading an older Win2000 PC by adding an additional IDE new hard >disk > (250GB) having a active WinXP SP2 partition along with the active Win 2000 > IDE partition on existing 80 Gb hard drive.: > > Hard Drive Configuration: > > Disk Drive 0: Partition 0 WINXP SP2/NTFS 3.01 file format (250GB) (IDE > master) > Disk Drive 1: Partition 0 Win2000/ NTFS file format 1.09 (80GB) (IDE > slave) > > > When booting into active Win2000 on hard drive 1, the Win2000 OS can > recognize hard drive 0 (WinXP) and read files from WinXP drive 0. Win2000 > list hard drive C (Win2000) and F (WinXP) as available. > > When booting into active WinXP SP2 on hard drive 0, the WinXP OS can not > recognize hard drive 1 (Win2000) and only list hard drive C(WinXP) as > available ! > > Can WinXP read other NTFS hard drives formatted with earlier NTFS file > versions ? Yes it can. I do this regularly and there is no problem. Right-click on My Computer in XP and choose Manage. When the window completes, in the left-hand tree there's a Disk Management item. Choose that, then right-click on the section where the W2K drive appears and choose Assign or Change drive letters. HTH -pk.
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