can windows 2000 read XP ntfs partitions?

[Ian R]

Hi

My friends XP system has become unbootable and he needs urgent access to
data saved on the drive.

He has another PC running Win 2k Pro.

If we put the XP drive into the Win2K PC will it be able to read the XP
partitions?

Thanks for any info.

Ian

 

[Nik Simpson]

Hi

My friends XP system has become unbootable and he needs urgent access to
data saved on the drive.

He has another PC running Win 2k Pro.

If we put the XP drive into the Win2K PC will it be able to read the XP
partitions?

Back a long time ago when beta testing XP, you had to copy the ntfs.sys
file from the XP install to the W2K install to get 2K able to read the
XP NTFS partition. Not sure if that's still required or whether MS
updated W2K after the XP release.

 

[Eric Gisin]

Of course. Both are NT version 5.X, very few diffs.

Back a long time ago when beta testing XP, you had to copy the ntfs.sys file from the XP install
to the W2K install to get 2K able to read the XP NTFS partition. Not sure if that's still
required or whether MS updated W2K after the XP release.

Utter bullshit. In NT4 you need SP6.

 

[Nik Simpson]

Of course. Both are NT version 5.X, very few diffs.
Utter bullshit. In NT4 you need SP6.

I might be thinking of the W2k beta vs. NT4, all those betas tend to
merge together in my mind.

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Hi

My friends XP system has become unbootable and he needs urgent access to
data saved on the drive.

He has another PC running Win 2k Pro.

If we put the XP drive into the Win2K PC will it be able to read the XP
partitions?

Get a recent verison of LiveCD (Fedora 7, Knoppix, Ubuntu..). They could
read NTFS and doesn't require installation. Just boot them off the
DVD/CDROM...

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Get a recent verison of LiveCD (Fedora 7, Knoppix, Ubuntu..). They could
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