disk error in xp / vista dual boot
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7:35 am
Posted by Jim
(1 messages posted)
Hi all.
Last night I installed XP and Vista on a clean hard drive. I intalled XP first,
then Vista, as recommended by the interweb.
Everything worked swimmingly, except for one thing: after I installed and booted
Vista for the first time, when I went back to XP, I got a warning at startup that
said "one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency." It then ran a check
and told me it fixed several things, and then XP started fine. Subsequent XP reboots
went fine, with no errors or warnings.
But every time I boot Vista and then go back to XP, I get the same warning. It was
late when I got to this point, and I must confess that I'm not even sure which partition
-- Vista or XP -- it was checking. I assumed it was XP, but didn't think to check.
Has anyone seen this before? I'd appreciate any thoughts, as I'd like to get this
cleaned up before I continue with the installations.
Thanks.
Jim
Relevant info: Vista 64 bit, XP Pro (very old CD, probably not even SP1). Both OSes
are completely unpatched at the moment; I installed only what was on the CDs, and
haven't run Windows update on either of them. The hard drive is a brand new Seagate
SATA-II 250GB, partitioned into 50GB for XP at the front, and 200GB for Vista the
back.
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