Dual Drive PC: WinXP Can Read/Recognize Win2000 Hard Drive ??

[Tom L]

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 ?

 

[philo]

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

 

[Patrick Keenan]

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.