Windows 2000 and NTFS 5.1 - is this possible?

[Mike Moron Morowski]

Hi all,

to make a long question short - is it possible to make Windows 2000
handle HDDs that were formatted with Windows XP ( e.g. USB disks from
a friend who uses XP)?

Greetz

MM

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all,

to make a long question short - is it possible to make Windows 2000
handle HDDs that were formatted with Windows XP ( e.g. USB disks from
a friend who uses XP)?

Greetz

MM

AFAIK Win2000 can read all partitions formatted under WinXP.

 

[Mike Moron Morowski]

AFAIK Win2000 can read all partitions formatted under WinXP.

On my first attempt, it didn't work... maybe it was because the HDD
was < 160 GB. Also, wouldn't another file system (W2k is NTFS 3.0, XP
is 3.1) require another driver, to prevent data loss (at least in case
of write access)?

Greetz

MM

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

On my first attempt, it didn't work... maybe it was because the HDD
was < 160 GB. Also, wouldn't another file system (W2k is NTFS 3.0, XP
is 3.1) require another driver, to prevent data loss (at least in case
of write access)?

Greetz

MM

You don't need any drivers but you must enable 48-bit LBA
on your Win2000 PC:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

 

[Mike Moron Morowski]

You don't need any drivers but you must enable 48-bit LBA
on your Win2000 PC:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

Thanx for this information; just one last question: is 48-bit LBA also
required for USB disks (I've always thought BIOS isn't involved when
reading/writing to USB disks, at least not for translating the HDD's
geometry...)?

Greetz

MM

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanx for this information; just one last question: is 48-bit LBA also
required for USB disks (I've always thought BIOS isn't involved when
reading/writing to USB disks, at least not for translating the HDD's
geometry...)?

Greetz

MM

Good question - unfortunately I don't know the answer.

 

[Dave Patrick]

I think it applies only to a disk who's controller uses atapi.sys

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[Mike Moron Morowski]

I think it applies only to a disk who's controller uses atapi.sys

Guess you're right - thank you!

Greetz

PM

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.

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