Re: can windows 2000 read XP ntfs partitions?


"Nik Simpson" <n_simpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:BJsei.112$s8.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ian R wrote:
Hi

My friends XP system has become unbootable and he needs urgent access to data saved on the drive.

He has another PC running Win 2k Pro.

If we put the XP drive into the Win2K PC will it be able to read the XP partitions?

Of course. Both are NT version 5.X, very few diffs.

Back a long time ago when beta testing XP, you had to copy the ntfs.sys file from the XP install to the W2K install to get 2K able to read the XP NTFS partition. Not sure if that's still required or whether MS updated W2K after the XP release.

Utter bull***. In NT4 you need SP6.

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