Seeing secondary hard disk after reinstall

[Iain King]

Hi. Currently my system has two hard disks, a 10 gig with Win2k installed
(C, and a 30gig with data files (D. I'm intending on getting rid of
Win2k and installing Win XP Pro by:
(1) Copying all my data files which are on C: onto D:
(2) Formatting C:
(3) Installing Win XP on it.
(4) Copying data files that were on C: before format back onto it from D:

My question is - will I have any problems accessing the NTFS partioned D:
drive from a clean install of Win XP? I'm worried about file permissions,
user access rights, etc. Will any administrator account from WinXP be able
to access the secondary drive?

Thanks, Iain King

 

[Peter Forster [MVP]]

Howdie,

My question is - will I have any problems accessing the NTFS
partioned D: drive from a clean install of Win XP?
No.

I'm worried about file permissions, user access rights, etc.

There is no reason for that. Any Administrator has access to the files.
Maybe you have to replace the owner but after that you can give the
permissions back to the users you want.

Will any administrator account from WinXP be able to access the secondary

drive?

Yes.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hi. Currently my system has two hard disks, a 10 gig with Win2k installed
(C, and a 30gig with data files (D. I'm intending on getting rid of
Win2k and installing Win XP Pro by:
(1) Copying all my data files which are on C: onto D:
(2) Formatting C:
(3) Installing Win XP on it.
(4) Copying data files that were on C: before format back onto it from D:

My question is - will I have any problems accessing the NTFS partioned D:
drive from a clean install of Win XP? I'm worried about file permissions,
user access rights, etc. Will any administrator account from WinXP be able
to access the secondary drive?

In addition to Peter's comments:

If you have used EFS to encrypt any files, you better un-encrypt
them before scratching the Win2k installation.

 

[Peter Forster [MVP]]

Howdie,

In addition to Peter's comments:

If you have used EFS to encrypt any files, you better un-encrypt
them before scratching the Win2k installation.

Thanks for that. I always forget EFS!