----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux
> > I had a bizarre thought today. What would happen if Mickeysoft
> > decided that a nice feature of their operating system would be to
> > rewrite the boot record every time you booted Windows. This could be
> > referred to as part of the "maintenance" cycle.
>
> In a few words: I thought they already did that! :-)
>
> I had a windows 98 installation that consistently re-wrote the
> disk-signature of my dual boot system's 2nd hard drive, and kept rendering
> that damned drive's partitions hidden... so , I couldn't boot from it
until
> I went into partition magic, and made than active again!
>
> Need I say that I formatted the win98 partition very soon after that? And,
I
> haven't touched Win98 since!
>
Not to be defending windows but it was most likly the way your
anti-virus was configured that keep changing your boot record back to its
orig. state.
Bill just thinks he's all powerful. Norton knows He Is. (-:
Charles
