Dual Boot Weirdness
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- System contains 2 IDE drives and 2 SATA drives 1) Installed Win2K - everything is fine 2) Installed Vista Ultimate - everything is fine 3) Re-connected secondary drives 4) Booted into Win2K - everything is fine 5) Formatted all secondary drives (NTFS, *not* using "quick format") 6) I now have drive partitions C through L 7) Restored files to newly formatted drives 8) Used system in Win2k for a few days, and then booted into Vista. Vista claimed that drive H needed to be disk checked, so I let it do it's thing (weird though since all I had done was format the drive and copied files onto it with no other access/use) 9) Got tired of dealing with Vista and rebooted into Win2K. Win2K claimed that the K: drive needed to be disk checked. Again, weird since I didn't access that drive AT ALL while in Vista. 10) Today, I booted into Vista to change the default OS when the system boots up. When Vista started, it claimed that the recycle bin on drive L was corrupted and offered to empty it for me. I declined. 11) Rebooted back into Win2k with no drive problems... This shit is freakin' me right the hell out.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
- System contains 2 IDE drives and 2 SATA drives 1) Installed Win2K - everything is fine 2) Installed Vista Ultimate - everything is fine 3) Re-connected secondary drives 4) Booted into Win2K - everything is fine 5) Formatted all secondary drives (NTFS, *not* using "quick format") 6) I now have drive partitions C through L 7) Restored files to newly formatted drives 8) Used system in Win2k for a few days, and then booted into Vista. Vista claimed that drive H needed to be disk checked, so I let it do it's thing (weird though since all I had done was format the drive and copied files onto it with no other access/use) 9) Got tired of dealing with Vista and rebooted into Win2K. Win2K claimed that the K: drive needed to be disk checked. Again, weird since I didn't access that drive AT ALL while in Vista. 10) Today, I booted into Vista to change the default OS when the system boots up. When Vista started, it claimed that the recycle bin on drive L was corrupted and offered to empty it for me. I declined. 11) Rebooted back into Win2k with no drive problems... This shit is freakin' me right the hell out.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Sounds pretty odd. Have you gotten anywhere with it? I've got a similar setup except I have 3 SATA drives and 1 IDE drive. But, I haven't ran into any problems like you are describing. The only difference for me is that I am dual booting with XP rather than 2K. Hmmmm..... is there a difference between how 2K and XP handle ntfs? I am getting more than a bit frustrated myself but, I guess I need to at least have some experience with vista for the off chance that a client *needs* their app to run on it. Good luck
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- System contains 2 IDE drives and 2 SATA drives 1) Installed Win2K - everything is fine 2) Installed Vista Ultimate - everything is fine 3) Re-connected secondary drives 4) Booted into Win2K - everything is fine 5) Formatted all secondary drives (NTFS, *not* using "quick format") 6) I now have drive partitions C through L 7) Restored files to newly formatted drives 8) Used system in Win2k for a few days, and then booted into Vista. Vista claimed that drive H needed to be disk checked, so I let it do it's thing (weird though since all I had done was format the drive and copied files onto it with no other access/use) 9) Got tired of dealing with Vista and rebooted into Win2K. Win2K claimed that the K: drive needed to be disk checked. Again, weird since I didn't access that drive AT ALL while in Vista. 10) Today, I booted into Vista to change the default OS when the system boots up. When Vista started, it claimed that the recycle bin on drive L was corrupted and offered to empty it for me. I declined. 11) Rebooted back into Win2k with no drive problems... This shit is freakin' me right the hell out.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Be careful with this one John. AFAIK the versions of NTFS included in Win2k and Vista are different, so you may get oddities like this if one OS can see the other. For what it's worth, the same issues don't seem to appear between XP and Vista. It may be that they do appear between Win2k and XP, though.
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