Hard Drive Compatibility with Vista and XP

I have a secondary harddrive that i use with my XP machine to store files
like pictures, documents. It was my "g" drive.

I create a new machine from scratch and then decided to add the old
secondary hard-drive to my new vista machine (it was a 'slave' on XP). When
I start up Vista it states that the drive is now a 'dynamic' disk and cannot
access the drive. there is a red exclaimation mark on the drive - when i go
to disk management. the only way to access the drive is to reformat all the
contents:

- is ntfs different on Vista vs XP?
- Is there a setting I should use - is it trying to map the same letter
drive designation from XP to Vista?


Any help would be appreciated.

I have been able to bring over 2 dynamic disks from XP into Vista.

I DID get the error that I would lose all data, but I did not lose data.
THAT WAS MY EXPERIENCE, I DO NOT GAURANTEE THAT IT WILL WORK FOR YOU!!!
So don't come after me if your machine hoses your drive.


"Deepak Shenoy" <DeepakShenoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a secondary harddrive that i use with my XP machine to store files
> like pictures, documents. It was my "g" drive.
>
> I create a new machine from scratch and then decided to add the old
> secondary hard-drive to my new vista machine (it was a 'slave' on XP).
> When
> I start up Vista it states that the drive is now a 'dynamic' disk and
> cannot
> access the drive. there is a red exclaimation mark on the drive - when i
> go
> to disk management. the only way to access the drive is to reformat all
> the
> contents:
>
> - is ntfs different on Vista vs XP?
> - Is there a setting I should use - is it trying to map the same letter
> drive designation from XP to Vista?
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.