From: Dominique Pivard (domi_at_kenavo.fi)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 16:56:05 EDT
Hi,
I installed WinXP on a spare drive (created from my production drive with
Ghost) running W2K. Since that I've seen strange things happening on my
production drive (which is still running W2K w/ SP2. For instance, I can
no longer open Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel (yes, I'm logged as
administrator).
I then saw the following article on Bill Morrow's site
(http://www.thinkpads.com/windows_xp_rc1_on_the_thinkpad_a.htm):
"Before anything else, a word of warning. Do not run Windows XP, with a
Windows 2000 NTFS drive in your ultra bay. Windows XP will convert a
Windows 2000 NTFS v. 5.0 drive to NTFS v 5.1, and you will not be able to
use the drive to boot to Windows 2000 without reformatting under Windows
2000 (which will destroy your data) and reinstalling everything. Don t
learn this the hard way. Windows XP will not do anything to a FAT32 drive
in your ultra bay."
At some point, I did put my production drive in the 2nd HDD adapter (in
order to copy some files from it), and inserted the adapter in the
Ultrabay 570 when having WinXP booted. Things aren't as bad as described
above, since I'm still able to boot my production drive. But is it
possible WinXP has "contaminated" part of of it? How do I find out which
version of NTFS I'm currently running in W2K?
I guess I'll have to do a fresh reinstall of W2K as soon as I have the
time, and hope for the best in the meantime.
Thanks, Dominique
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