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Mick Murphy
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      09-17-2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931277

The above link is about the oppsite .
There is a slight difference between NTFS XP and NTFS Vista.
Unfortunately, I deleted the link I used to have about it.
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Mick Murphy - Qld (Sunshine State) - Australia


"TITSSN" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have somewhat of a unique problem on my hands and I don’t know how to fix
> it.
>
> Here goes.
>
> I have 2 Seagate 1 TB drives that are used in 2 different systems, one is a
> Vista Enterprise SP1 and the other WinXP SP3. I swap them between systems
> because of the large files/media i’m producing/encoding on them between
> sites. One of the drives was formatted in the Vista PC and the other in the
> XP PC. The XP formatted drives works in the Vista PC but the Vista formatted
> drive cannot be initialized in the XP system.
>
> When I add it and go into the Disk Management it shows up as a foreign drive
> and I try to import it I get an error that points me to the event viewer to
> see what the error is. Basically it says that it can’t read the drive to
> import it. If I put the drive back in the Vista box it works. This happens to
> a few of my 500GB drives as well.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Any help would be appreciloved.
>
> Thank you and have a great day,
>
> ~Brett A. Scudder~

 
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