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Win XP Pro on wrong partition
Acronis True Image 8.0 can be installed and ran in Windows XP - that is, it creates disk/partition images and restores any partition or disk (as well as separate files and folders). Unlike other programs, Acronis True Image 8.0 lets you create an image of any disk or partition without rebooting your PC.

Accessing the XP C:-partition from Win2000?
Why does my \System Volume Information\ folder in my XP partition have zero files and zero folders? All my other partitions have lots of files and folders in their SysVolInfo folder. BTW, my PC is set up as a dual boot with Win98 in my first partition and WinXPh in my second partition. If I needed to restore,

Sharing Restricted Folders
In the meantime the OP's question remains unanswered: Why would he be unable to see his Win2000 partition when booting into XP? between the two editions, as it pertains to the file system, is that on WinXP Home, one cannot disable Simplified File Sharing to readily apply NTFS's file and folder permissions.

Partition advice - XP, ntfs and mdk
If you install XP when the 98 partition is active, the system files will be installed on that partition and XP windows folder will be installed on the XP partition. Then if you remove, move, or reformat the 9x partition, XP will no longer boot. This is why the boot/partition manager can help in installing XP.

How to safely delete XP partition
So what is the procedure to do this with fdisk. Or do I just install ME and let XP do the rest, but then what about the 3rd partition for the files and folders. I thought that you would make a primary dos and 2 extended dos partitions but you can only make 1 extended. Hope this explains enough for you to help H.

ME & XP
You will beed to get a third party tool (my personal preference is BootIt NG) to resize the partition. After resixing your current Windows XP partition and creating a Anando Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User Microsoft Certified Professional http://www.microsoft.com/mvp http://www.mvps.org Folder customizations

Koldbear
Also, use TweakUI to redirect your "My Documents" and other type folders to the Data partition. I have been dual booting W98 and XP since March and haven't had any problems with this setup. -- Clif Holcomb cl...@home.com Nashville, TN Windows XP Pro 2600 This e-mail has been scanned and found to be virus-free with

Partition for Vista and boot manager
Michael S. user@#notme.com microsoft public windowsxp basics 8 start over...boot from the XP CD, run setup to the point where it asks where you wish to install, hit esc, reformat your XP partition with FAT32 file system as opposed to NTFS, continue XP install. No more folder or file access problems as this

I have a couple of questions, about XP
If you are going to be installing XP to this drive, it won't fit. While the Windows folder itself will only be 400MB or so, the other files and folders that will be put in place will need more than 1 GB of space. As the system matures, the amount of space needed for the XP partition will increase.

Restore from I386 folder
And/or do you know any good documentation about this? I donīt mind doing some research on my own... I use smbmnt/smbmount/smbclient. smbclient creates an ftp-like access to your XP machine. smbmnt/smbmount allow you to mount the XP partition so that it appears just like any other partition on your linux machine.

Accessing the XP C:-partition from Win2000?
Will, I'm fairly sure that XP doesn't have a _restore folder hence my question. XP's System Restore places a System Volume Information folder on each volume/partition/drive where system restore is enabled so I don't understand how the XP partition has a _restore folder. On my system any _restore folders visible

Local mail folders
For the NTFS support in LINUX (read only because it will create problems if you write) insert this onto the FSTAB file that is in the /etc folder in your linux partition /dev/hda1 Hello All, this hard disk has a linux (suse) partition and a windows xp one. The /etc/fstab has the line \dev\hda2 /windows/C ntfs .

Assigning permissions
I understand that non-NTFS partitions must be placed BEFORE XP partition, so that they can be 'seen' by XP - is this correct. ftp://24.168.218.243 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP This IP is dynamic so it *could* change! ...over 58000 FTP users served! ^^^^^^ nVidia GeForce Drivers available in the nVidia folder.

Cannot install fs 2002 pro to partition
AFAICS Acronis "Disk Directory has the functionality to hide the XP partition. I had hoped that I could get by with just Vista, but there are a few apps I depend on that still do not And try if restoring a previous version of a directory (folder). I don't mind giving up the system restore points if I have to.

.finf folders
Howard In 1 setup I have used a 2 gig XP partition and install all programs to my D partition in a Myprograms folder. XP uses a different Virtual memory system so you can set a,"Pagefile" for each partition and move My documents folders etc to the other partitions if required. This allows me to image the system

Problems With Windows Update!
The Program Files folder stores your installed applications, why would you want to save personal files there? The Public Documents folder is more appropriate for this, if you need to have files stored on the XP partition, save them in the Shared Documents folder on the XP partition (x:\Documents and Settings\All

% of hard disk for system restore
Why does my \System Volume Information\ folder in my XP partition have zero files and zero folders? All my other partitions have lots of files and folders in their SysVolInfo folder. If I needed to restore, what would be restored for my XP partition if its SysVolInfo has no files or folders in it? . . . Bruce.

thinkpad coming with XP, want to shrink it's partition for linux
The main thing I want to avoid is XP trying to mess with the linux stuff. Use a partitioning utility to shrink the XP partition, to make space for Linux. You may also want to create a FAT32 partition, and move the "My Documents" folder, so that your files will be available from both sides.

Can I Protect Folders From "Guest" Users With FAT32?
Hope this helps. Brian "Martijn Bink" <n...@none.com> wrote in message news:1f7101c270fc$52980840$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10... Want to place it on a partition separate from my Windows installation because it is low on space. Sorry don't know this answer, but you might use Partition magic to resize your XP-partition.

Multiple OS, getting rid of 1
It's not an "XP" partition that Windoes can't read, but NTFS. XP supports FAT32 which may be better unless you need a secure system. So what is the procedure to do this with fdisk. Or do I just install ME and let XP do the rest, but then what about the 3rd partition for the files and folders.