> I am running windows 2000 and have run into a problem with 7.1. I ran a
> triple boot with 2000, 98, and 7.0 for quite a while and had no problems.
> With 7.1 though something has changed... it would seem that something with
> the way they format their drives has changed. Before the linux partitions
> showed up as unusable or damaged to win2k so it didn't bother with them.
> Now they show up as being good and healthy. You would think this a good
> thing but the problem is that since they are showing up as good and
healthy
> win2k looks at them when I boot. This makes my boot up time for win2k go
> from <30sec without 7.1 to about 5-10min with 7.1.
Charles,
I am running 7.1 with Win2k and, although Win2k sees the disk as healthy,
the dual boot has not increased my boot time. What exactly does it do while
it is booting that causes it to take a long time (eg. autocheck etc.)?
