I installed win XP Pro a 2nd hard driveI used for data drive with win 2kPro

[TungFree]

I installed win XP Pro on a 2nd hard drive, I used for data drive with for 2kPro.
After booting with Win2k Pro in my 1st drive to try and save and transfer valuable data to XP, XP refused to boot up at all.

I read that Win2kpro will convert the XP files to a different file system that will not work for XP.

Is there a way I can use it or is it gone?

Is there a remedy to be able to live with these 2 OSes, without one corrupting the other?

 

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Post boot.ini

There should be one on the xp disk and the win2k disk, if I understand correctly.

Also they both use the same File Systems, so unless you completely overwrote your data, it's still there.

 

[TungFree]

What do you actually do that is called "post boot.ini?
usually such a file is opened with a text editor foe reading.

 

[TungFree]

Some more input to update the first post.

While they boh have the same named file system, the file system has several versions. And you are correct that the files were not deleted, but I did not know about boot.ini and did the following, and lost my registry files.

When I tried to boot up with win2k after posting my problem , neither hard drive would boot up, when I switch them as slave and Master and back. So I booted the XP hard drive alone with a boootable XP CD and over wrote the system with the slipstreaned up to date, XP. when all was done, I was able now to boot with both hard drives singly without the other. My old win2k now works. In the XP hard drive, although I have the XP installed programs in "Program File" folder, without the old registry they are dead and all my e-mail and identities in thunderbird are gone. But they are sill present in the win2k side. ( I had found in the past a way to import the addresses and identities and e-mail folder sfrom 2k to XP, but I did not document my trial and error method and cannot recall how I did it. I think I searched for Udora files and brought them in that way ( I do not use eudora, it was a way to fool thunderbird. I have not founda tutorial, how to transfer the records from old thunderbird 2k to new thunderbird XP.

I have been thinking to install winXP over win2k so they are able to work together without win2k converting the file system of XP type NTFS to the non working for XP type NTFS downstepped version. Even though both use NTFS they are irreverably altered by win 2k without warning, and create the problem I had faced and still face, with the lower version of NTFS.

 

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