OK for XP to create files on Vista partition ?

[dave xnet]

Hello, I'm dual booting XP and Vista. I recently ran a
chkdsk (is it still called that in Vsta ?) in Vista, and it ran
during the next boot. It found hundreds of errors in Index and
security descriptors.

Could this be because I've been saving files in the Vista partition
while running XP?


Dave

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Or try saving your files in the Users\Users\Public directories.

 

[badvista]

what you say is wrong...

Dave, that could be. XP uses a older verion of NTFS than Vista. You
would be better off bringing the files over from the OS partition that
you want to put them on.

Shawn


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[badvista]

the errors are not generated because you are writing from one OS to the
other OS's partition.

you can write fine on both partitions

 

[Tom Ferguson]

In my view, you have run into a rather elusive file system problem
created by something Vista does. I have had discussion with a couple of
MSofties about it. They checked and have called it an "anomaly". I have
no idea what the status of the problem is.

To prevent the problem, I deleted the Vista partition. Then I created a
primary partition using either XP or Acronis. I installed Vista into the
new partition. Problem gone.
I was able to reproduce the problem on three different boxes. Your
experience might be different. My experience is not enough in and of
itself to show anything other than that there is a problem on some
systems in some circumstances.

Vista and XP should be able to read/write files created by itself and the
other. Also, there should be no problem reading/writing to any FAT32 or
FAT16 file system.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

 

[badvista]

Perhaps the problem is hardware specific? Because i have done this on 3
machines and I have not seen anything like this.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

Possibly; however, the three different systems had different MoBo chip
sets using, in particular, three different SATA RAID0 drivers. I suspect
it is connected to the presence of an extended partition on the drive or
drive array and the arrangement of boot and system disks for each OS. I
have only had it occur with Windows XP and Vista dual boot with both OSs
on the same drive or array.

I did test multiple times with different arrangements using different
partitioning utilities including those on the XP or Vista CD/DVD.
However, I did not do the full set of formal factorial tests and analysis
that would be necessary to isolate the problem.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

 

[davexnet01]

Possibly; however, the three different systems had different MoBo chip
sets using, in particular, three different SATA RAID0 drivers. I suspect
it is connected to the presence of an extended partition on the drive or
drive array and the arrangement of boot and system disks for each OS. I
have only had it occur with Windows XP and Vista dual boot with both OSs
on the same drive or array.

I did test multiple times with different arrangements using different
partitioning utilities including those on the XP or Vista CD/DVD.
However, I did not do the full set of formal factorial tests and analysis
that would be necessary to isolate the problem.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

Thanks for the info. My setup is is single SATA and single EIDE;
obviously non-raid. All of this action take place on the SATA drive.
XP (primary partiton) and a couple of data (non-OS) logical partiitons
were cloned from and old IDE drive to the SATA
using Acronis TrueImage version 10
then the old EIDE was removed from the system
I tested the SATA drive as it was and all appeared normal.

I then created a partition of unallocated space (another logical
drive)
using XP's disk manager and proceeded to install Vista into it.

All went normally. The only oddity was what looked like garbage on
the screen
right before Vista's boot loader menu. Using the "pause" button on
the keyboard
I was able to freeze and see the messages. It wasn't garbage, it was
an error
talking about incorrect CHS values. (Maybe because of Trueimage?)

I updated the BIOS in attempt to fix it but to no avail.
I then ran Vista's fixboot and fixmbr and problem solved.

I really don't want to have XP and Vista in separate primary
partitions.
I always thought only one primary could be "active" and the other
"hidden"
Is this what you did?