Windows 2000 and NTFS 5.1 - is this possible?

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Mike Moron Morowski

Hi all,

to make a long question short - is it possible to make Windows 2000
handle HDDs that were formatted with Windows XP ( e.g. USB disks from
a friend who uses XP)?

Greetz

MM :)
 
Hi all,

to make a long question short - is it possible to make Windows 2000
handle HDDs that were formatted with Windows XP ( e.g. USB disks from
a friend who uses XP)?

Greetz

MM :)
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AFAIK Win2000 can read all partitions formatted under WinXP.
 
AFAIK Win2000 can read all partitions formatted under WinXP.
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On my first attempt, it didn't work... maybe it was because the HDD
was < 160 GB. Also, wouldn't another file system (W2k is NTFS 3.0, XP
is 3.1) require another driver, to prevent data loss (at least in case
of write access)?

Greetz

MM
 
Thanx for this information; just one last question: is 48-bit LBA also
required for USB disks (I've always thought BIOS isn't involved when
reading/writing to USB disks, at least not for translating the HDD's
geometry...)?

Greetz

MM
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Good question - unfortunately I don't know the answer.
 
I think it applies only to a disk who's controller uses atapi.sys

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