I HAVE A TEN GIG HARD DRIVE RUNNING ON A HOME MADE JOBBER CONSISTING OF A CELERON 366 ON AN ADAPTER BOARD IN A SLOT ONE MOTHER BOARD WITH 64MB OF SD100 RAM ATI 8 MB GRAPHICS CARD ECT....
THE PROBLEM IS I HAVE WINDOWS 98 AND 2000 DUAL BOOTING WHICH WORKED WONDERFUL FOR ABOUT FOUR MONTHS UNTILL I TOOK THE DRIVE OUT TO TRY TO HELP MY FRIEND GET FILES OFF FROM HIS IT WOULND BOOT ON HIS COMPUTER AND NOW IT WONT BOOT ON MINE WHEN I REINSTALLED IT I GET A SYSTEM.INI ERROR WHEN BOOTING TO 2000 AND A BUNCH OF VXD ERRORS WHEN BOOTING TO 98 ANY SUGGESTIONS
THANKS

NOW WHEN I BOOT TO WINDOWS 98 I GET A VFAT ERROR INDICATING THAT THERE IS A MISSING FILE OR DEVICE THAT THE VFAT NEEDS TO START AND IT WONT START UNLESS IT GETS THAT FILE. ITS A BLUE SCREEN AND IT JUST SITS THERE I HAVE TO REBOOT TO GET BACK TO THE WIN98/ 2000 BOOT SCREEN

Try scandisk or better yet; NDD (Norton Disk Doctor) I have found at times scandisk to say everthing is A OK, and then run NDD immediately afterwards and find & fix Fat/Vfat problems. You can also try fdisk/mbr (I've never had it fix anything for me but it's there to re-create the Master Boot Record if a virus were to write itself there).

THATS BOBD ILL GIVE THAT A TRY I APPRECIATE THE SUGGESTION THIS THING IS DRIVING ME CRAZY

Hey Cooper111, it's FionaG from 2 up. It looks like you sent me a reply but I can't see any postings in the page. Any clues again???

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FLoG

thanks for all the help i just reformatted my drive i had too big of a headache to try anything else.

thanks again