XP-Vista HDD Brawl Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 8:39 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Teddy (1 messages posted) I'm seriously freakin' out here. I knew it would happen eventually. :/ If anyone could help, please know it would be EXTREMELY helpful to my mental health... So I have three hard drives. I decided that I'd load XP on one, Vista on another, and put all of my files (my LIFE) on the third one. That way, I could access my stuff from both XP and Vista as I evaluated the latter. So I used Vista for about a week (enjoying it!), then booted from the XP drive to use a program that I haven't been able to use in Vista. As XP booted, it decided that my shared drive needed to be "checked for consistency" or whatever, and it proceeded to run that blue screen scandisk thing that I sometimes (rarely) see. This time, however, it took almost two hours as it "reindexed" or whatever. Once it finally booted into XP, I quickly noticed that about half of the files on that shared drive weren't accessible (had "blank" icons and couldn't be opened). I panicked and booted up back into Vista. Vista said that the entire DRIVE was unaccessible! My first instinct was to format the XP partition (probably just because I was pissed at it), but I really don't think that would restore my access in Vista. What's going on? Have I royally screwed things up? Sorry - I'm not as much as a noob as I sound. I'm just freakin' out, so the neurons haven't started firing again yet. Thanks SO much for absolutely ANY help anyone could provide! Teddy Responses to this message: re: XP-Vista HDD Brawl (Ray B: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:42 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] XP-Vista HDD Brawl (Teddy: Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 8:39 pm) re: XP-Vista HDD Brawl (Ray B: Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 10:42 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum