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Sharing My Documents on dual boot XP-64 with Vista-64
  1. 03 Mar 2007 #1


    Beertje Guest

    Sharing My Documents on dual boot XP-64 with Vista-64

    First installed XP-64 on drive C, moved My document folder to drive D.
    Second installed Vista business-64 on drive E.
    All these partitions are on the same hard drive.
    Now I want Vista to be able to give Full access to the data in My Documents.
    Cannot get this working.
    Please advice.



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  2. 03 Mar 2007 #2


    Mary Guest

    RE: Sharing My Documents on dual boot XP-64 with Vista-64

    You cannot share in a dual boot situation. Only one OS is available at a
    time. Best bet is to copy the Documents folder on each drive.

    "Beertje" wrote:

    > First installed XP-64 on drive C, moved My document folder to drive D.
    > Second installed Vista business-64 on drive E.
    > All these partitions are on the same hard drive.
    > Now I want Vista to be able to give Full access to the data in My Documents.
    > Cannot get this working.
    > Please advice.

      My System SpecsSystem Spec
  3. 04 Mar 2007 #3


    Beertje Guest

    RE: Sharing My Documents on dual boot XP-64 with Vista-64

    I am sorry but I got it working. Changing the owners in both systems finally
    worked out. Don't ask me how I did it step by step, but I got it working.

    "Mary" wrote:

    > You cannot share in a dual boot situation. Only one OS is available at a
    > time. Best bet is to copy the Documents folder on each drive.
    >
    > "Beertje" wrote:
    >
    > > First installed XP-64 on drive C, moved My document folder to drive D.
    > > Second installed Vista business-64 on drive E.
    > > All these partitions are on the same hard drive.
    > > Now I want Vista to be able to give Full access to the data in My Documents.
    > > Cannot get this working.
    > > Please advice.

      My System SpecsSystem Spec
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