reallyscrued
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Hi everyone, I've just split my 160 gigabyte hard disk which initially had just XP on it into two partitions, the first being an Active Primary Disk which shows up in XP as drive C: with about 120 gigs of space. The remaining space of a little over 30 gigs was used as a second NTFS partition, drive D.
Installing Win7 onto drive D was easy, the boot manager took care of everything on start. XP is selectable, (although I wish they hadn't called it "An earlier version of Windows", gotta change that) and it boots fine.
In XP, I can see the Win7 partition and browse through the files. In Win7, I cannot browse the XP partition. My Computer shows only one disk, C:, the 30 gig partition of course. Disk Management shows both volumes but I cannot "explore" the XP drive.
I've had dual boots of XP and 2000 back in the day and would be able to transfer files between the two systems fine, is there something I'm missing here? Both are NTFS, only discrepancy I can see is that my version of 7 is 64 bit while XP is 32. Would that pose a problem?
On a side note, Win7 freakin rocks. I went to great lengths to install XP on my Dell XPS which originally came preloaded with Vista, my major gripe being that Vista just felt too sluggish. I even lent a friend of mine a stick of RAM for a few days and am working off just 1 gig and this system still flies. Maybe its the 64 bit advantage.
Installing Win7 onto drive D was easy, the boot manager took care of everything on start. XP is selectable, (although I wish they hadn't called it "An earlier version of Windows", gotta change that) and it boots fine.
In XP, I can see the Win7 partition and browse through the files. In Win7, I cannot browse the XP partition. My Computer shows only one disk, C:, the 30 gig partition of course. Disk Management shows both volumes but I cannot "explore" the XP drive.
I've had dual boots of XP and 2000 back in the day and would be able to transfer files between the two systems fine, is there something I'm missing here? Both are NTFS, only discrepancy I can see is that my version of 7 is 64 bit while XP is 32. Would that pose a problem?
On a side note, Win7 freakin rocks. I went to great lengths to install XP on my Dell XPS which originally came preloaded with Vista, my major gripe being that Vista just felt too sluggish. I even lent a friend of mine a stick of RAM for a few days and am working off just 1 gig and this system still flies. Maybe its the 64 bit advantage.
