XP Can't See Vista

[crazyfool]

Okay I was dual booting Vista and Xp fine of two seperate hard drives but then my vista hard drive decided it is finished with so before it craps out i copied the disc image to the xp hard drive and am now dual booting them both off of one disc fine. But now when i boot into xp it can see the vista partition if i go to disc management but in my computer it isn't there so I can't copy or play files from vista in Xp. Anyone know how to solve this?

[SNBAD]

does it work the other way round ?

[TAKTAK]

this hasn't got anything to do with winFS has it??

(i havnt really looked into it, im just going off the top of my head )

[peterb]

You might need to allocate a drive letter to the Vista partition in disk manager.

[crazyfool]

okay the drive is called Microsoft Vista and has a drive letter and yes vista can see and acess the xp partition

[MarkyP]

are they both formatted as NTFS?

[pctechxp]

Which one is the active partition?

For info, unless things have changed radically over the past year, Vista still uses NTFS (I had an upgrade version and that never offered to rewrite the file system as WinFS) as my understanding was that WinFS was dropped because of technical issues.

[MarkyP]

oh, right, sorry I hadn't read your post carefully enough...

what do you see in Disk Manager?

does the partition show up as empty space?

[Splash]

WinFS is not a file system, it's a storage engine that sits on top of the file system.

If the Vista drive has a letter allocated under XP can you access it from command line?

[crazyfool]

I can see it in disk manager but i can't see it in my computer so i cant access the files

[Splash]

What format is it in Disk Manager? Can you access the drive letter assigned from a command line?