> Problems that span several OSs are often hardware related.

I hope its not that serious, since Windows 98 is working ok. Maybe partitions for
Windows 2000 and Linux is corrupted?

> Next I'd look into the way the drive is partitioned.  How did you
> install the second OS?  How did you repartition to make space?  Are you
> using UMSDOS or something?  Which partitions are NTFS and which are
> FATxx?  Where is lilo installed?  How old is the computer?  How big is
> the drive?  Do you have SMART enabled in the BIOS ?

I installed Windows 98 into C:, primary partition, then installed Windows 2000 into d:,
extended partition with first logical drive, and Linux is installed into e:, extended
partition with second logical drive.All these partitions, plus a 30Gb FAT32 partition
is located into the same hard drive.

I've done the partitions using FDISK.
Haven't heard of UMSDOS so can't be using it.
Only Windows 2000 drive (D:) is NTFS and the 1st partition of second hard drive is
NTFS. And only Linux drive (E:) is formated to ext2 format. The rest are FAT32.
The computer is about 1-2 years old. AMD K6-2 500MHz, 186Mb RAM, 1st HD is brand new
40Gb, 2nd HD is 8Gb.
I think I might have enabled SMART using a program somwhere in the computer.
If you need more details to solve the problem just let me know.

BTW, if worst comes to worst, is there a way to uninstall Linux (and reinstall it)?

Hansen



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