Vista drive crashes after use on win7 system

photodude

The other day I plugged in a vista ultimate hard drive to my win7 machine to grab a file off that drive that I didn't have a backup of. Last night I needed the vista drive running; upon booting the drive when into a check disk with a ton of bad security id's it tried to fix. Eventually the OS loaded and and I went about my business, opened a program which immediately crashed. In fact every program now crashes either after opening or trying to run any part of the program, or trying to save a file from within the program.

tried reseting the security on the drive, no success.

Any ideas?

photodude

looks like I'm getting some "error 1603" issues

I'm thinking the security on the drive is all messed up since the win7 venture. The question becomes how to fix the security issues. (selecting the drive, right clicking > properties > security tab, added user with full control; no change)

photodude

After further investigation not all the apps on the vista drive crash just a lot of them. Paint, the snipping tool, photoshop, etc all crash.

Turn windows components on/off brings up a blank window

IE8 only crashes if you try to save a file
Quicken seems to run (haven't tried saving a file)

running repair on the OS from the DVD had no effect on the problems

Leonardo

Does your Vista drive have the same partition names as your Win7 drive? Did you check the drive assignment letters?

I've run two computers now with Win7 installation drives and WinXP drives both in the system. I have not experienced the problem you are writing about.

photodude

in the evolution of this system The vista Drive was drive C: I removed the drive installed another drive and win7 (new C: drive) while running win7 I plugged in the vista drive which became a Drive D: on Win7. Then after unplugging both drives and swapping the SATA connector so the vista drive was back on SATA0 and rebooted, is when the issues started, I'll check the drive letter assignment, but initially it comes up as C:

photodude

with vista running it comes up as C: computer managment shows it as C: (I wonder if there is an easy way to change the drive letter on an active boot and then change it back to eliminate any latent drive letter issues if there are drive letter issues hiding in the shadows)

photodude

follow up

after spending 90% of the day with microsoft's support and $50 we fixed the problem.

one of two things fixed the issue :bigggrin:

either the system file checker scan

sfc /scan now

or check disk

chkdsk /r

or the combination of the two fixed the problem of all the applications crashing when a file was being saved.

here is to problems being solved

Thrax

So the real issue is that the partition or disk was messed up, not that Windows 7 had done something.

photodude

the disk was running fine an hour before I had plugged it into the system and booted into win7. I plugged it in so I could pull a file off the drive. later that day when I booted vista up is when the issue started.

from my perspective, browsing the drive while in win7 caused the problem and corruption.

photodude

I think I finally figured out what happened. I think the system when to sleep while the win7 drive was on and I pulled the plug and switched the drives causing the problem. To make it worse I think I must have done the same thing after the vista drive was in a sleep state.

good news an in-place upgrade repaired the files on the win7 drive that could not be fixed by running

sfc /scan now

I'll do the same on the vista drive when I install it in a new box. (then I'll wipe the drive and replace it with win7 64bit.