Two Vista in one machine
I tried to install two Vista into one machine, with dual-boot. I am using NTFS for both systems. Everything fine in the beginning. After I tried to write some files from one Vista system to the partition of another Vista, both of the two Vista crash. Is it related to the Security ? Will it be better with FAT32 instead of NTFS ? Thank you very much ! Tung Hung
July 16th, 2008 9:59am

Hi, I really would not recommend that you setup vista as FAT32. It really does not allow you to take advantage of EFS or a lot of other features. When you say both your Vista crash, what do you mean? With a dual boot situation, only one can be booted to and so how do both machines crash? Can you post the dump logs and event logs so that we can get a better understanding of what is happening. Also let us know if you tried copying from A to B and conversely from B to A and it has the same results. Also give us your log on credentials that you are trying (meaning administrator or what user level) and also where you trying to copy to meaning the program data folder or encrypted user folder
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July 16th, 2008 9:11pm

Thank you for your reply. I made the 1st partition C: drive of 50G in NTFS, then install system A.Then I made 2nd partition D: drive of 20G in NTFS, then install system B.During bootup, I can choose to boot up A or B. Everything fine. Then, when I boot up system B, I tried to copy some files to the 1st partition.The write operation is successful and I can see & compare the written files. Then, when I boot up system A again, error messages showed up, saying both C: & D: have problem and force to perform a CHKDSK.Serveral errors were found and fixed during the CHKDSK. After that, 2nd partition was completely crash & cannot be accessed.I can still bootup system A, but there are some problem in 1st partition.If I ran CHKDSK to check the C:, the CHKDSK terminated without any message.I can never complete CHKDSK. Do you have any idea about my case ? Thank you very much !
July 17th, 2008 9:29am

Hi 1. You cannot install Vista on a Fat32 partition. If you try an do so, the partition will be automatically converted to NTFS.2. This sounds like a failing harddisk. Run a HardDrive diagnostics program from here. Make sure you select correctly your harddrive manufacturer.
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July 17th, 2008 4:59pm

If the hard drive utility comes clean then your best course of action would be zero out the drive having backed up your data and take it from there.
July 18th, 2008 7:08pm

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