Help! XP-Vista HDD Brawl!

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I'm seriously freakin' out here. I knew it would happen eventually. :/ If
anyone could help, please know it would be EXTREMELY helpful to my mental
health...

So I have three hard drives. I decided that I'd load XP on one, Vista on
another, and put all of my files (my LIFE) on the third one. That way, I
could access my stuff from both XP and Vista as I evaluated the latter.

So I used Vista for about a week (enjoying it!), then booted from the XP
drive to use a program that I haven't been able to use in Vista. As XP
booted, it decided that my shared drive needed to be "checked for
consistency" or whatever, and it proceeded to run that blue screen scandisk
thing that I sometimes (rarely) see. This time, however, it took almost two
hours as it "reindexed" or whatever.

Once it finally booted into XP, I quickly noticed that about half of the
files on that shared drive weren't accessible (had "blank" icons and couldn't
be opened). I panicked and booted up back into Vista. Vista said that the
entire DRIVE was unaccessible!

My first instinct was to format the XP partition (probably just because I
was pissed at it), but I really don't think that would restore my access in
Vista.

What's going on? Have I royally screwed things up?

Sorry - I'm not as much as a noob as I sound. I'm just freakin' out, so the
neurons haven't started firing again yet.

Thanks SO much for absolutely ANY help anyone could provide!

Teddy
 
Might be an issue due to the fact that vista's indexer collides with the
already established index that xp used for Hard-disk indexing - just a
thaught.

Try tools like partition magic to recover/repair the drive or to diagnose
the problem further.

If you still cannot access the files you may want to try a Linux Operating
System CD that has a Live-Filesystem ( OS runs completely from CD without
any install to HD ) like Ubuntu,Mandriva One,Mepis etc ( all free
downloadable isos : distrowatch.com ) .

Sometimes it is possible to access files this way (linux can read XP/Vista
drives but not vice versa... ) and copy them to a usb-thumbdrive or back
them up to a networkdrive.

Best Luck.
 
I'd try running scandisk from within XP. Also take a look at the permissions
to make sure Vista didn't screw them up.

-Mike
 
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