Help! XP-Vista HDD Brawl!

> I'm seriously freakin' out here. I knew it would happen eventually. :/ If
> anyone could help, please know it would be EXTREMELY helpful to my mental
> health...
>
> So I have three hard drives. I decided that I'd load XP on one, Vista on
> another, and put all of my files (my LIFE) on the third one. That way, I
> could access my stuff from both XP and Vista as I evaluated the latter.
>
> So I used Vista for about a week (enjoying it!), then booted from the XP
> drive to use a program that I haven't been able to use in Vista. As XP
> booted, it decided that my shared drive needed to be "checked for
> consistency" or whatever, and it proceeded to run that blue screen
> scandisk
> thing that I sometimes (rarely) see. This time, however, it took almost
> two
> hours as it "reindexed" or whatever.
>
> Once it finally booted into XP, I quickly noticed that about half of the
> files on that shared drive weren't accessible (had "blank" icons and
> couldn't
> be opened). I panicked and booted up back into Vista. Vista said that the
> entire DRIVE was unaccessible!
>
> My first instinct was to format the XP partition (probably just because I
> was pissed at it), but I really don't think that would restore my access
> in
> Vista.
>
> What's going on? Have I royally screwed things up?
>
> Sorry - I'm not as much as a noob as I sound. I'm just freakin' out, so
> the
> neurons haven't started firing again yet.
>
> Thanks SO much for absolutely ANY help anyone could provide!
>
> Teddy

> I'm seriously freakin' out here. I knew it would happen eventually. :/ If
> anyone could help, please know it would be EXTREMELY helpful to my mental
> health...
>
> So I have three hard drives. I decided that I'd load XP on one, Vista on
> another, and put all of my files (my LIFE) on the third one. That way, I
> could access my stuff from both XP and Vista as I evaluated the latter.
>
> So I used Vista for about a week (enjoying it!), then booted from the XP
> drive to use a program that I haven't been able to use in Vista. As XP
> booted, it decided that my shared drive needed to be "checked for
> consistency" or whatever, and it proceeded to run that blue screen
> scandisk
> thing that I sometimes (rarely) see. This time, however, it took almost
> two
> hours as it "reindexed" or whatever.
>
> Once it finally booted into XP, I quickly noticed that about half of the
> files on that shared drive weren't accessible (had "blank" icons and
> couldn't
> be opened). I panicked and booted up back into Vista. Vista said that the
> entire DRIVE was unaccessible!
>
> My first instinct was to format the XP partition (probably just because I
> was pissed at it), but I really don't think that would restore my access
> in
> Vista.
>
> What's going on? Have I royally screwed things up?
>
> Sorry - I'm not as much as a noob as I sound. I'm just freakin' out, so
> the
> neurons haven't started firing again yet.
>
> Thanks SO much for absolutely ANY help anyone could provide!
>
> Teddy