Quick question about Win2K & WinXP

[Doot]

If I had a duel boot machine with Win2K & WinXP will each OS be able read each other NTFS file system?

[krohnjw]

Yes

[Doot]

Thanks, I read somewhere that WinXP has a slightly different NTFS

[EndobioticChaos]

Quote:

Originally posted by Doot
...WinXP has a slightly different NTFS

BS. If that were true, you couldn't upgrade directly from Win2K to WinXP now, could you?

[krohnjw]

Not as much BS as maybe a misread or some bad info. They can both use the NTFS filesystem, as they are both built off of the NT kernel. Can't we play a little nicer EC?

[DVNT1]

Doot is correct, there are different versions of NTFS for W2K and XP.

W2K and XP's NTFS are compatible though...

Quote:

Your ability to access your NTFS volumes when you use a multiple-boot configuration to start Windows NT and Windows XP Professional depends on which version of Windows NT you are using. If you are running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 or later, you can read basic volumes formatted by using the new version of NTFS. Computers running Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional can read the new version of NTFS on both basic and dynamic volumes.



XP's NTFS: Some data structures on newly formatted NTFS volumes have been moved to a different location on the physical disk. This new location improves performance from 5 to 8 percent, making NTFS performance similar to FAT.

XP's NTFS conversion utility: The format command in Windows XP Professional now aligns FAT data clusters at the cluster size boundary. This alignment improves the conversion of FAT volumes to NTFS because the convert command can now use a variable cluster size, up to a maximum of 4 kilobytes (KB), for converted volumes, instead of a fixed 512-byte cluster size as used in Windows 2000.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...c_fil_ziqb.asp

[KenKun]

Windows XP uses NTFS v5.1 while Windows 2000 uses NTFS v5.0 ...

They can read each other (compatible), but there is a difference as DVNT1 quoted above ...

Regards