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06-12-2008
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| | Multiboot XPx64, Vistax64, Svr2008: XP can't write to Vista HDD, WTF?? Hello, I have a PC with three partitions on SATA master drive 1. I installed three OSs in this order (all x64): XP, Vista Ultimate, Server2008. They multiboot perfectly. I also have a second drive, a standard IDE Maxtor 320 GB as an IDE master. It contains about 250 GB of important data. I set up the second drive using Vista. I can't write to it when I boot into XP. I've tried to write to several directories. I always get this error message: Disk N: is write-protected A file cannot be saved on a write-protected disk XP has also called it "Disk T:" It isn't write protected, AFAIK. My best guess is this error is caused by permission incompatibilities between XP and Vista. Any suggestions? Thank you Ray |
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06-13-2008
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| | Re: Multiboot XPx64, Vistax64, Svr2008: XP can't write to Vista HDD,WTF?? Ray wrote: Quote: > Hello, > > I have a PC with three partitions on SATA master drive 1. I installed > three OSs in this order (all x64): XP, Vista Ultimate, Server2008. > They multiboot perfectly. > > I also have a second drive, a standard IDE Maxtor 320 GB as an IDE > master. It contains about 250 GB of important data. I set up the > second drive using Vista. > > I can't write to it when I boot into XP. I've tried to write to > several directories. I always get this error message: > > Disk N: is write-protected > A file cannot be saved on a write-protected disk > > XP has also called it "Disk T:" > > It isn't write protected, AFAIK. My best guess is this error is > caused by permission incompatibilities between XP and Vista. > > Any suggestions? > > Thank you > > Ray |
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06-13-2008
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| | Re: Multiboot XPx64, Vistax64, Svr2008: XP can't write to Vista HDD, WTF?? In addition to Michael's reply, are you aware of the fix for the XP volsnap.sys problem when multi-booting XP, Srver 2008, and Vista? If you have not taken steps to protect your Vista and Server 2008 VSS files (restore points, backup and restore center files, CompletePC Backup files, shadow copies, etc) from being wiped by booting XP then please see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185 Also, I have attached a grey-paper detailing the resolution I wrote while setting up a multiboot system. "Ray" <nopost@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:bpb354dh68g8ml0g7kdk1n5dja1ah2l5oi@xxxxxx Quote: > Hello, > > I have a PC with three partitions on SATA master drive 1. I installed > three OSs in this order (all x64): XP, Vista Ultimate, Server2008. > They multiboot perfectly. > > I also have a second drive, a standard IDE Maxtor 320 GB as an IDE > master. It contains about 250 GB of important data. I set up the > second drive using Vista. > > I can't write to it when I boot into XP. I've tried to write to > several directories. I always get this error message: > > Disk N: is write-protected > A file cannot be saved on a write-protected disk > > XP has also called it "Disk T:" > > It isn't write protected, AFAIK. My best guess is this error is > caused by permission incompatibilities between XP and Vista. > > Any suggestions? > > Thank you > > Ray |
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