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Sharing storage on 2 OS

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October 21, 2012 3:10:23 PM

hi guys and gals :hello: 

i have built a new system SataIII 6Gb ,works fine but have been left wondering ..

on 1 hard drive i run XP 32 pro
on another hard drive i run Win7 64
i have a third hard drive with 2TB much larger storage space

i want to know if i can use that as storage for both operating systems with out conflicts
i would be mailnly storing : music, films, photo's office files etc basicly no programs will use this drive for boot records etc it will be more of a data storage library

i am probably a bit nieve asking but windows xp and windows 7 they store these kind of files in same format do they not ?

thanks for all replys recieved

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October 21, 2012 4:33:05 PM

Hello,

Not clear, but think you mean you have XP on a separate HDD, Win-7 64 on a separate HDD, which you plug in without using a boot manager to multiboot, depending on which OS you want to use. Now what's on the new SATA III 6Gb/s drive?

You can leave the 2TB HDD connected on a "later" SATA port like SATA_4 which is Not bootable (no active flag) for both to use for storate. The BIOS recognizes it in either case on Boot up.

I'm sure you have NTFS of all HDD's, but go to Disk Management, and make sure they all have the File System listed as NTFS on all of them.
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