PC CONFIGURATION
Core 2 Duo E6600 4 MB L2 2.40 GHz
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 7600GT (Silent Pipe 2)
Corsair VS PC2-4200 533MHZ 2gb
Seagate 320gb SATA2
Maxtor 200 GB HDD
Antec TruePower TP-II 550 Watts
Hi Guys,
Installed XP Pro SP2 (32Bit) on the 320GB Sata2 drive. Everything was working perfectly fine and the PC was really fast.
Then installed Vista 64 Bit RC1 on the Maxtor 200 GB HDD. All was still OK.
Then I wanted to do something clever.I went into the XP ran diskmgmt.msc Right clicked the partition of the Vista Drive and clicked on “change drive letter and paths” and just clicked on remove (So as not to the see the Vista boot drive in XP. It gave me the standard warning & I said yes to that.
Then I booted into Vista and did the same to the XP Drive Then the problems all started.
When I booted into XP, it came up with Gigabyte raid configurations errors etc but the PC speed was still OK. Then the next day, the PC speed became really slow.I unplugged the power cable to the Vista drive and still the same issues etc. XP was hanging etc etc. Booted into Vista and things were still fine etc.
Things reached such a state that XP was unusable. Used Bart PE to boot into a GUI and tried to delete the Vista files through BartPE with A43 File Manager .
Question 1 – I was unable to delete these files at all? Even in a Bart PE environment do the vista files still stay protected?
Question 2 Why was i unable to delete them, are they encrypted?
Anyways, disconnected the power cable to the Vista drive, started XP back again.
CHKDSK started and it came up with a lot of errors. Could not read sectors etc?
Question 2 – When I had deleted the volume letter of the XP drive through Vista, could that have caused this?
Reimaged PC. Took 10 mins to install 7GB (OS + all Apps etc). Booted into XP and all was perfect again? Like nothing ever happened.
I still have the Vista HDD disconnected till i get some ideas from you guys. Pls help.
