No, I haven't completely ruled out hardware problems. It may well be a bad cable or motherboard. It is in an air conditioned office and the computer does have a couple case fans. I agree that normally windows and linux don't tread on each other unless you mount the partition (which I didn't even install the NTFS support for FC2). However, the first time this happened, I already had WinXP and FC2 installed and re-booted in both a couple times. I was running FC2 at the time of the crash which caused both windows and FC2 to crash on boot up (it made it past GRUB, but not far). As another linux helper pointed out to me, there is a bug with the FC2 that causes the hard disk geometry reported in the partition table to be altered durin installation. The results of which are exactly a problem I saw early in this debacle. However, I still do not have an explanation for the first crash. James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote .. > talberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Main problem was that I had a windows XP fedora1 box running great > > for months. I istalled FC2, it ran for about a week, then FC2 crashed > > with disk write errors. I rebooted to find that neither windows, nor > > FC2 would run. Well after several hundred re-installs, formats, > > fdisks, maxblast3 programs and a new hard drive that experienced just > > as many problems, I'd lost all confidence in the situation. > > I'm sorry to hear you've had so many problems. > > Have you really ruled out hardware problems? It sounds as though you're > having problems with Windows, as well. And "disk write errors" do point > to hardware. > > In general, Linux and Windows only tread on each other's toes while > booting. Once you've got the machine up, then the partitions will keep > the data well apart (unless you deliberately mount one OS' partition > from the other OS). It's generally obvious whether they're going to > play nicely together or not. > > I know you've replaced the hard drive, but it's not the only hardware > that could be at fault: it could be the motherboard, the CPU, memory, > or even the IDE cable. > > How hot is it in your part of the world? What's the power like? > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | Really, *really* bad headlines: > @westexe.demon.co.uk | Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge > | New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group > | Kids Make Nutritious Snacks > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
