Dual booting Win2K with WinXP, corrupt FAT32 drive

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Hi,

I´m experiencing a very strange problem. I'm dual booting Windows 2000
Professional + SP4 and Windows XP Professional + SP2 each one of
them using a dedicated C: drive that gets hidden when the other OS
boots (I´m using a 3rd party booting solution that allows this scheme) .

I also have an extended partition where there is a logical partition with a
FAT32
filesystem that I use to exchange data between the two systems. It appars as
drive D: under both OSes.

The problem is that from Win XP I can see the directory structure of D: and
copy
or move data to/from the drive without problems.

But from Windows 2000 the contents of some directories appears totally broken
with ghost files of varying sizes than have not resemblance with the files I
put on
that directory both on file count and size, also the filenames aire composed
of
random gibberish taht gets detected by explorer as using some incompatible
character encoding.

The HDD is a 250 GB SATA drive, also, the extended partition has some
unpartitioned space at the end after the D: drive partition.

Any ideas?

TIA
 
cramm said:
Hi,

I´m experiencing a very strange problem. I'm dual booting Windows 2000
Professional + SP4 and Windows XP Professional + SP2 each one of
them using a dedicated C: drive that gets hidden when the other OS
boots (I´m using a 3rd party booting solution that allows this scheme) .

I also have an extended partition where there is a logical partition with a
FAT32
filesystem that I use to exchange data between the two systems. It appars as
drive D: under both OSes.

The problem is that from Win XP I can see the directory structure of D: and
copy
or move data to/from the drive without problems.

But from Windows 2000 the contents of some directories appears totally broken
with ghost files of varying sizes than have not resemblance with the files I
put on
that directory both on file count and size, also the filenames aire composed
of
random gibberish taht gets detected by explorer as using some incompatible
character encoding.

The HDD is a 250 GB SATA drive, also, the extended partition has some
unpartitioned space at the end after the D: drive partition.

Any ideas?

TIA
Click to expand...

Perhaps support for 48-bit LBA is not enabled on the Win2000
side - see here:

Win2000 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
WinXP - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
 
Pegasus,

Pegasus (MVP) said:
Perhaps support for 48-bit LBA is not enabled on the Win2000
side - see here:

Win2000 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
WinXP - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
Click to expand...

You were right, I created the EnableBigLba key with a value of 1 under Windows
2000 reboot and problem solved. It ssems strange to me that even when support
for 48 bit LBA is present since SP3, it didn´t got enabled by default.

Thank you very much.
 
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