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Drive sharing b/w XP and Vista

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poncherelli2

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I just installed Vista in addition to XP and everything works ok so far in dual boot. I had 2 HDDs, 3 Partions as follows:

1 80GB HD1- XP Drive with winxp and all xp apps installed
1 80GB Partition on HD2- Vista Drive with windows Vista installed
1 170GB Partition on HD2- Media Drive with all my music, movies, pictures, and some alot of other random files.

When I go into Vista, I cannot access the media drive at all. It says permission denied, and even when I took control of all permissions this didnt let me in. When I went back to XP I had to retake all the permissions for this drive, but everything worked in XP again.

Interestingly, when I was in Vista, I was able to look through some files on the XP Drive and it seemed to take some form of permission to view those files.

What I am interested in is how to set the media drive so that I can access the contents from either XP or Vista without messing around with permissions. Thanks!
 
Hmm, I was able to set a special permission for the drive that allows me to access most of its contents, but some of the folders/files will just not let me in, even with a permission applied to the whole drive.
 
I have tried alot of things and still cannot get permission to many folders and files including all of my music and some other folders full of documents and spreadsheets. They work fine in XP, but even when I try and create permissions in Vista, it says access denied when trying to apply those permissions. Is there a way in XP I can just set the drive to grant permission to the Vista users (same computer name and username as XP).
 
Simply taking ownership of a set of files isn't sufficient to view them. In your case if you aren't concerned about security simply give the Everyone user full priveleges to the media drive.
 
Still looking for some help. I'm not using vista too much right now as I can't print from it and my music is protected from me (and iTunes won't work yet), but would like to figure this problem out for when I start using it more often.
 
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