Another bad drive?

[Icarus]

What does this sound like?

3 hard drives in system
4.5gb Seagate - Win2000 fat32

20gb Maxtor - fat32 used for programs in Win2k and shared under Linux

60gb Seagate - Current Red Hat install with 20gb left open

The Red Hat install has been working great, but when trying to boot to the Win2k drive it does some crazy things...
It loads just fine, I get the login and login just fine. Everything seems just fine until right after the drive finishes loading all the Windows stuff that takes forever in the background. Then, suddenly, it reboots...

Everytime it will do this, there should not be anything new with it...no changes. I was playing Thief2 in it before I got the new drive and loaded the RH beta...

I do not see how RH could of done anything to this drive...unless setting the hdparam in Linux, even though the drive never gets mounted, messed it up?

Any ideas on this or probally just 'normal Windows behavior'? :p

[mdwatts]

Are you in W2K long enough to be able to use the Event Viewer to see if you can spot the problem.

Try disconnecting the Redhat drive to see if W2K starts without rebooting.

[Icarus]

Wish I saw this last night :p

I'll see if I can get to the Event Viewer fast enough to see if there is anything there, if I can't or nothing is there I'll try disconecting the other drive (not sure how well this will work, the Grub bootloader is installed on the MBR on the Win drive...it might just bomb out completely)

[JSimmons]

Are you sure your bios supports drives larger than 40gb? I have an Abit BX6 rev 2 that was not patched to the latest bios, and it choked/puked on a new 80gb drive I recently purchased. After flashing the bios, it worked like a charm...

[Icarus]

Yes, it reads the 60GB drive, no problem. The windows drive is a 4.5GB, I do have the latest BIOS for the main board (been waiting for an update to fix an error when running games in Windows, it's in beta now...I'm not touching beta BIOSs)

Just odd that this problem didn't start until I got the new Linux installed, I was using it just fine before I got the new drive...