windows vista problem

Are the usernames different?

You can take permission on Vista, but then XP will probably give you the same error, because then it won't own them - try giving the XP account permissions to the files while logged into Vista.

hope that helps!

btw - I'm curious why you're dual-booting... checking compatibility of stuff?

the usernames arent different, theyre both my name spelt exactly the same in reguards to capital letters and whatnot.

yeah i was a bit worried about changing over to vista, so i didnt want to remove win xp. but i like vista a lot, which leads to another question.
if i delete the partition xp is on, will i then have full access to the files i cant use at the moment?
and another thing which probably has something to do with not being able to access the disk i mentioned earlier, is that i looked in my networks folder, and there is the name of my computer there, and then the folder tree extends beneath the name of my computer, and the name of the drive i cant access is there... i dont know what i did to make that happen, do you know how i can correct it?

i dont think i explained that very well.
but in the networks window there is
network > [my computer name] > [name of the disk i cant access] & [printers]

what did i do? :[

thanks for your reply. :]

hmm - take a look at the folder Properties > Security > Advanced > Owner to find out which account owns the folder/files - you should be using Admin accounts on each OS and Ideally, the files should be owned by the Administrators group. This has changed a bit from XP, and was the only thing I had a bit of trouble with as well. Also watch out for the "you need permission" message - Vista uses it when it should be saying "file is in use", so if these were mp3's for example and media player had them open, you can't delete them, but Vista gives you a permission error instead of a usage error (which is not very friendly, really).

If you delete xp, and the 'my documents' folder was created with xp, vista might still have an issue with it, since your vista account doesn't 'own' it.

that drive is probably showing up in Network because you have it shared.

If I were you, I'd only boot into XP when using a program that doesn't run in Vista, if everything you do works in Vista, I'd get rid of XP... when I first installed Vista, I had dual-boot and ran it on weekends just to see how I liked it and what all did/didn't work. After a month, I killed off my XP install.

btw - which version of Vista are you running? (shouldn't matter, but I'm just curious)

Assuming administrators have write permissions on the folder, you will need to log into an administrator account on Vista, and give permissions on that folder to your Vista user account.

If it’s a public folder, you can do it a lot more easily by giving read permissions to the “Users” group, and write permissions to the “Administrators” group.