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Old 02-25-2008   #3 (permalink)
RalfG


 
 

Re: XP partition and Vista partition--URGENT!

I'm also running dual boot with XP. To avoid having that problem I moved all
of the documents/folders I needed to access from both OS's to a neutral
location on a 3rd partition.

"Ed White" <ewhite@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've had a PC with 64-bit processor for over a year, but I've been running
> XP
> Professional on a partition on it. Now that Vista 64 bit SP1 is
> available,
> I've loaded that onto a second partition to test whether all my software
> will
> run on it. While running in Vista, I went to the XP partition (which
> shows
> up as drive D under Vista) and took ownership of the D:/.../My Documents
> folder. However, when I boot under XP, permission is denied to view any
> documents under the My Documents folder. Since I've not fully converted
> over
> to Vista, I still need access to My Documents when I boot under XP. How
> do I
> allow this?
> --
> Ed
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