peculiar problem with HDD partitions

[digitized]

Hi friends,

I recently installed the Windows Vista beta-2 that I received free from Microsoft. I have a 80GB HDD with 4 partitions. I Installed vista in F drive by formatting it from the Vista setup.

The problem is I cannot view the entire F drive itself from Windows XP (I have dual booted with XP) although I can see all the 4 partitions from Vista.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.
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Hello, why isn't anyone replying? It is important to get the space back in order to save the torrent files...

[iMav]

Hello, why isn't anyone replying? It is important to get the space back in order to save the torrent files... ..... sorry v r against piracy and its nice to c that ur hdd is helping r cause

[Anand_RF]

..... sorry v r against piracy and its nice to c that ur hdd is helping r cause
Technically, you cannot assume he is indeed downloading pirated stuff (even though I assume he is :P) because he could be downloading from legal sites like legaltorrents.com

As for the problem, vista modifies the partition order afaik. In the sense it can change d: drive to e: or f:. You've said that you can see 4 partitions through vista, but are you able to see 4 partitions on booting through xp?

[digitized]

Technically, you cannot assume he is indeed downloading pirated stuff (even though I assume he is :P) because he could be downloading from legal sites like legaltorrents.com

As for the problem, vista modifies the partition order afaik. In the sense it can change d: drive to e: or f:. You've said that you can see 4 partitions through vista, but are you able to see 4 partitions on booting through xp?

Cool down people, it is my problem what I want to do with the space (I have not mentioned what I download by torrent so you cannot tell me that I am d/l'ing pirated stuff. And morever, there is this pending billing problem with Dataone which is continuing for the last one month-see the dataone sticky in the Chit Chat section. So I seldom download nowadays). Let's focus on the main issue.

Yes, I can see and access and write to all 4 partitions from Vista although the vista partition is not visible and accessible from XP.:( All partitions are in NTFS.

Any suggestions?

[suman2005]

Yes, I can see and access and write to all 4 partitions from Vista although the vista partition is not visible and accessible from XP.:( All partitions are in NTFS.

Any suggestions?

In XP start Disk Management and see if this partition shows - if it does than the problem could be as simple as allocating the partition a Drive Letter.