re: XP-Vista HDD Brawl
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ray B
(393 messages posted)
Well, it was a good plan. I've done similar things, like formatting an external
USB drive accidentally (with all my data files). It sort of like when I had a swimming
pool installed and started putting chemicals in to keep it clean. I forgot the formula,
so just put a month's supply of the muriatric acid in, thinking that must be the
right amount.
Anyway, I finally decided to totally disconnect "mission critical" harddrives when
fooling around with formatting or installing other drives.
--Ray B
On Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 8:39 pm, Teddy wrote:
>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
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