Hi!

Here is another funny trouble story.
I have 2 HDD, 1 with Win2000 (1-st, NTFS5) and another with Win98 (2-nd, FAT32). I always worked with Win2000 and used Win98 disk as a floppy to poll data back and forth from the office to home.

Recently I have to use both operation systems on the same computer to test some new softaware. So I put Win2000 HDD as C drive and Win98 as a D drive and switch in BIOS which one should boot. When I boot Win98, it runs autmatic scandisk at startup to check the Win2000 HDD for errors (because it is new). I always 'Alt-X' it without aware how that simple thing could be dangerous... Once I left Win98 starting up and went to, say, drink some coffee. When I come back, scandisk already made its dark work - it finished at 85% by Alt-X. After that Win2000 stopped to boot. When I look to the scandisk.log file, I saw that it made a copy of the 2-nd FAT (copy of the FAT) on the NTFS drive! Than truncated some suspicious FAT entries... In other words, @^%#$^@#, it spoiled the bood drive with Win2000.

Noew there are the questions:
1. Does Win98 automatic scandisk makes a backup of what it does and is there a way to recover the problem by reverse (undo) actions that scandisk made?
2. Can I recover my Win2000 drive information? If partially (5-10%), it is ok.
3. How can I switch off Win98 automatic scandisk running?
4. Does Win2000 have an ability to boot with menu where I can select what operation system I want to start, so I will not run BIOS setup each time when I want to switch to another OS on another drive?