Windows 10: Windows 10 NTFS incompatible with Windows 7?

I have a machine that (for testing purposes) dual boots either Win 10 (the default) or Win 7 (sometimes).


I added a new disk to that machine, partitioned with GPT and some other (non-windows) partitions on it, plus a NTFS partition starting at ~2 TB going to the end of the disk (which is 4T in marketing speech).


The GPT entry of the new partition looks like:


start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 2014 Unused
[..]

3519072256 2048 Unused
3519074304 4294962831 3 GPT part - Windows basic data
Type: windows
TypeID: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
GUID: 9309fd8c-3ece-47d5-bf42-ec66a3d94a1c
Size: 2048 G
Label:
Attributes: None
7814037135 32 Sec GPT table
7814037167 1 Sec GPT header


I formated the volume under Win 10 (as NTFS, with default settings) and copied data there.


Then I rebooted into Win 7 and the system prompted to chkdsk the new volume, which I aborted.


Instead I did check it when back in Win 10 and it checked clean.


But whenever I try to access the volume from Win 7, it can use somd folders / files just fine, but some other folders are inaccessible ("refer to some externals source not available" or similar cryptic error message) and then are hidden.

Back in Win 10 a chkdsk recovers the folders.


So is there some known incompatibility between NTFS in Win 10 and Win 7? Should I have created the volume in Win 7 instead?

I only tried a very limited number of repetitions, but the behaviour seems to be reproducable so far.

:)

 

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