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Windows 7 Pro Master HDD accessing a Windows XP Slave HDD

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HrtOfSword:
I've got two hard drives, HDD A and HDD B.
HDD A is installed with the Windows 7 Professional OS.
HDD B is installed with the Windows XP Home OS.

What I did was I plugged both HDDs up, with HDD A as the "master" and HDD B as the "slave", and I accessed the one of the user profiles found on HDD B.

What happened was I was prompted on whether "I wanted to get permanent access of the folder", and it required me to click yes before I can access the folder at all.

May I know what does clicking Yes actually change or do to any of the folder or files?

vuzedome:
I'm guessing you've booted into 7.
Not much will be changed.

fohfoh:
I think it's an admin thing that came with Vista and beyond.

Fact is, Vista and win7 will recognize windows files on other HDDs and you can't wipe it out. (My old laptop HDD turned external is like this). It won't use anything, but it won't let you delete or mess with anything either. Huge difference from XP when you could delete everything except certain folders named "special names". You'd end up with "folders" with like... 2 bytes on them, but it was deletable. AFAIK, you can no longer delete that crap while in windows mode. You have to fully format the HDD in Bios or some type of partionning program.

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