Win2000/WinXP HDD Problem

[DJ LUCiTE]

Alright, well, my problem is:

I've got two hard drives, a 200 gig "Primary" and an 80 gig "Secondary."

I installed Windows XP (Formatted NTFS) on the Primary about 8 months or so ago, can't remember. Anyway, I had put in the new Secondary HD and formatted that NTFS for video editing projects, etc.
About a month or two back, I installed Windows 2000 (Also formatted NTFS) on the Secondary HD, for the purpose of having a backup OS in case my main (Windows XP) decides to do stupid stuff like kill itself. But what's weird is, I cannot see the Windows XP drive when I'm rebooted into Windows 2000. They're both NTFS, and they should both work, but when I boot into W2K and attempt to access the drive, it shows up as "Local Disk (E🙂" instead of the actual label, "Primary HD (E🙂".
In addition, the error "E:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect." pops up.

If I try again, I get "E:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." even though I can still boot XP from the drive and use it as normal.

Also, I can see and use the Secondary HD from XP without errors or flaws.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

[bwcc]

At any point in time did you 'compress' the XP drive through the Local Disk Properties?

 

[DaiShan]

2000 and XP use different versions of NTFS natively. XP uses 5.1 while 2k uses 5.0. While XP can read NTFS 5.0 2000 cannot read 5.1. I think I remember that one of the SP's for 2000 fixed this problem. Make sure you are using the latest service packs.

 

[DJ LUCiTE]

bwcc: nope.

DaiShan: I'll go to windows update right now. thanks.

 

[DJ LUCiTE]

Hmm, I'm running win2k SP4 and winXP sp2.

There are no more critical updates in my win2k's software update, and the problem is still occurring. hmm...

 

[OdiN]

Any disk management software?

Also..did you maybe make the disk a dynamic drive by accident? Check in XP to see if it is set as dynamic.

 

[DJ LUCiTE]

Nope, no disk management software.

How do you check if it's dynamic?

I opened up diskmgmt.msc and it shows both drives as Type: Basic.

 

[xtknight]

Type: Basic means it's not dynamic so you don't have to worry about that.