can windows 2000 read XP ntfs partitions?

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?

Thanks for any info.

Ian

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?


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.

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Nik Simpson

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?

Get a recent verison of LiveCD (Fedora 7, Knoppix, Ubuntu..). They could
read NTFS and doesn't require installation. Just boot them off the
DVD/CDROM...

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> Get a recent verison of LiveCD (Fedora 7, Knoppix, Ubuntu..). They could
^^^^
left out a word Linux

> read NTFS and doesn't require installation. Just boot them off the
> DVD/CDROM...
>


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Expert in ePOS (Point-Of-Sales) solutions
Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only)
Tel: (852)2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288