I have a Maxtor Diamond Max 250 gig with two partitions, large and small. Large contains Windows XP

I have a Western Digital 250 Gig with two partitions, large and small, Large contains Vista X64 business

I have a 500 gig Data only RAID 1 mirror drive.

I went to perform a Norton Ghost backup of the Maxtor XP partion, with the destination of the WDC small partition, and ghost got disk errors somewhere,
and so i have done chkdsk, crap cleaning and defragmentation to the Maxtor XP partition. . . when I tried a third ghost sesson, i got a BSOD, and now XP sees the WDC Vista partion as RAW.

However, if I flip over to WDC Vista x64 partition and use that as the operating system, everything appears normal and runs normal

so what can i do to have XP see the WDC Vista partition as NOT RAW! (obviously, I can't format or reformat it from XP.) or do i just live with XP missing the Vista partion?

got me beat with this one

thanks



Wile E Coyote

well, i unplugged the Vista drive, and booted into XP and then shut down, plugged the Vista drive back in and rebooted, and magically XP could see the drive contents. . .

whatever. . .

and i have backup images of both drives now. . .

sportsguy

yea, my XP system restore does not impact the Vista drive, i disabled that awhile ago, thanks to this wonderful web site.

I don't re-image the disks very often, in fact, its been 9 months since my last image.
The reason is that I don't add or change much software. However, this time, I have added new software, and so I wanted a good image to restore with, no junk files, no fragmentation, latest updates on a different hard drive completely.

especially with disks which are starting to approach 3 years old, etc.

so far the dual boot, dual drive system works very well, except that the idiots at MS should have made Office 2007 64 bit, which would have integrated well with Vista X64, and really pushed the entire 64 bit systems as the main stream worth upgrades.

sportsguy

I just looked again, and XP does not recognize the drive partition again. . .. after rebooting this morning. . . something funky is going on. . .

anyone with suggestions why XP won't read a partition at startup ?

thanks

Sportsguy

ah, didn't think about that now that i have a USB drive attached. . .

let me try

thanks

sportsguy

no usb attachments. . . still happens. . . Vista partition is unreadable to XP though the second partition on the same disk is readable

i don't think its the cable, but could be. .

or could be a controller on the MB. . . .

anyone else with suggestions?

thanks

Sportsguy