XP Compressed drive in Vista?

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I'm trying to find out if a drive compressed with XP/SP2 will work with Vista?
A little history: I have a P4/3.06Ghz, 1 Gb Ram. I have 4 drives in it, one
being a 300 Gb SATA. I have compressed the drive (all of the files). I am
getting ready to build a new computer, Core2Duo 2.66 Ghz, 2Gb Ram, 2 new 250
Gb SATA drives. I will be installing Vista Ultimate. I want to move, at
least, this drive to the new computer.
Will Vista be able to read the files or even the drive?
 
You can compress a Hard Drive In Vista so i can't see why Vista would not be
able to read files or the drive. It is only a compressed hard drive
 
ComputerGenie said:
You can compress a Hard Drive In Vista so i can't see why Vista would not be
able to read files or the drive. It is only a compressed hard drive
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Thanks, but that just doesn't make me comfortable enough. I've been reading
the posts about the horror stories of losing data already. This drive has 300
Gb on it and I don't want to lose it. I intend to uncompress it once it is
installed.
 
Claince said:
Thanks, but that just doesn't make me comfortable enough. I've been
reading
the posts about the horror stories of losing data already. This drive has
300
Gb on it and I don't want to lose it. I intend to uncompress it once it is
installed.
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There should always be a backup of important, and non replaceable data.
What happens if that drive dies? Is there a backup? You need to be
prepared for that as much as for data loss when moving to a new OS. Things
happen.
 
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