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XP won't open USB drive previously used in Vista

  • 21-10-2008 4:12pm
    #1
    onechewy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭


    Hi,

    am in a bit of trouble here... :(

    I wiped and installed XPSP2 Professional on a machine that was previously running Vista Home Premium as the machine was crawling. The guy who owns it copied all his files onto an external USB drive before I did the install.

    Now the USB drive installs okay on XP, but it won't open. It won't open on another Vista machine either. Apparently Vista by default encrypts all data going to an external drive... I did not know this and this guy has about 50GB of stuff on the drive.

    There has to be, must be a work around somewhere....?!?


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  • #2
    R3al
    Closed Accounts Posts: 303 ✭✭R3al


    onechewy wrote: »
    Hi,

    am in a bit of trouble here... :(

    I wiped and installed XPSP2 Professional on a machine that was previously running Vista Home Premium as the machine was crawling. The guy who owns it copied all his files onto an external USB drive before I did the install.

    Now the USB drive installs okay on XP, but it won't open. It won't open on another Vista machine either. Apparently Vista by default encrypts all data going to an external drive... I did not know this and this guy has about 50GB of stuff on the drive.

    There has to be, must be a work around somewhere....?!?

    Encryption with windows is generally tied into the user account, so if this has been deleted you are going to find it difficult to retrieve the data, I would submit a ticket to Microsoft support if I were you and see if there is anything they can do for you


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