On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, VB wrote: > Ever since installing FC3 on my empty partition I've > been having problems with hard disk consistency > restarting from Linux into Win XP. First, anytime I > restarted from Linux to XP I would get the Windows > drive consistency dialogue. That has gone away in the > past few days and now my boot of Windows just fails at > the Windows boot screen (with the progress bar). > > Where I can start looking for the cause of this? Has > anyone had problems like this? I don't think my story is the same as yours, though it does look a bit alike. Mine was bad from the start, after linux was installed, no more windows.... Eventually i solved it, but with a lot more hassle than I would ever like to admit (and my thus-far flawless linux installs have now been tarnished.....). For a full record, see http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell-810m.html. Had i not used parted, probably everything would have been fine. - peter