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. Any ideas on how to get
around this? That long of a boot up time is unacceptable for me and if I
can't get around it I will have to either look to a different distribution
or give up Linux all together.
TIA,
charles
