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Dual Booting (Xp & Vista) + 2nd HD = Error, Please help

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Here is the setup. I have XP and Vista dual booting on one hard drive. No problem, everything is fine.

Then when I had a second HD for storage and format it in Vista, everything is fine, I can move files in and out of it, no problem.

Then I shut down and boot up into XP. When I go to access the drive its says its unreadable.

Then I shut down and go back into Vista, it now says its unreadable. So I have to do a full reformat for it to work again....

Anyone know whats going on...???.....its like XP is messing it up or something. Please help!!!

Thanks,
Kyle

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Try using a third-party partition utility like Partition Magic to format the drive. Paragon was giving away its Hard Disk Manager software for free a while back. (It also comes with an ISO for a boot CD - unlike PM which only makes floppies - to be able to use the software without actually installing it.

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Thanks for the reply. The first time I formatted it with partition magin I did it usinf NTFS and still got the error. The I tried Fat32. It seemed to work, but I am still not convinced that I wont lose data later on.

It was also a little buggy with XP and Vista together on a raid 0+1. So I have decided to redo the whole thing and not use Vista. Also, I have an X1900 AIW and the TV Tuner doesnt work in vista, ATI doesnt have drivers for it. So I am going to stick with XP.

Thanks for your help.
Kyle

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