ntfs hdd -> xp to win2000

[DJ-Ready]

Allright ... I have an old comp (secondary one, my mom and sister mostly use that one) with xp installed and wanted to replace that one with a slightly faster one but with win2k installed.
Both comps work perfectly fine but when I try to plug the "old" secondary hdd (300gb, ntfs) from the winxp comp into the "new" win2k comp it shows me the hdd as not formatted at all and just asks if I want to format it.
Obviously, the hdd is formatted and not empty and when I plug it back into the winxp comp it works fine

I tried to convert it to fat32 with partition magic before plugging it into the win2000 comp but the convert to fat32 option is greyed out in partition magic probably because the partition is too big (over 32gb)

I suppose I could resize the partition (100gig are still free on that hdd) and create <32gb fat32 partitions and then move stuff over (then after that, resize again, create more small fat32 partitions and move the rest over bla bla) but thats pretty tedious

Any ideas how I could just plug the hdd into the win2000 comp without having to go through all this trouble?

And no, just putting the data onto another hdd/comp to simply format the hdd is not an option .... excluding that hdd I have like 15gb free in total T_T

 

[Spunky]

No clue mate. I don't think there is.

 

[KarrdeKNR]

Got a DVD burner on the XP system DJ? Burn off all files, format, reload.

 

[kam!]

Got a DVD burner on the XP system DJ? Burn off all files, format, reload.

would take 40 DVDs xD

 

[Dzamija]

He didn't mention it was full.

 

[kam!]

He didn't mention it was full.

300gig total -100gig free = 200gig/~5 gig =40

 

[Grega]

Weitd. Win2K is NT based. It should have support for NTFS. WinME is the 9x based and requires FAT32.

Well in the worst case scenarrio you should do it over a backup portable HDD.

 

[DJ-Ready]

if I only had one :s

 

[DiebytheSword]

Win 2k's NTFS is a different version than XP's. Sorta like saying Win95 supported FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12. It only supported 32 in the B and C releases. I know that's what's wrong, but I don't know how to help you with it. I'll see if I can dig anything up.

 

[Quagmire]

Assuming both PCs would most likely have a NIC, find a network cable, share the stuff and copy it over. If however you'd like to do it locally, does the disk show as a dynamic or basic disk under win2k? Perhaps you could convert it to a basic disk under disk management or boot the XP drive in safe mode on the new pc then copy the data over to the win2k HDD/Partition.

Three methods of doing so .

 

[DJ-Ready]

Problem is I don't have that much free space on any of the comps in my network >_<

 

[Deverz]

Buy a blu-ray burner

 

[Spunky]

Buy a blu-ray burner

That'd be more expensive...