I have a Windows 2000 Pro / Debian dual-boot system, with 3 shared FAT32 partitions. I am trying to install Linux from scratch, so I formatted one of the partitions in Linux. Everyhing was fine, until I loaded up Windows which now has a problem with that disk. Every time it boots, it wants to check the disk, and when I let it, it says it's a non-Windows partition (which is fine). I want it to stop checking the disk on startup, does anyone know how I could do this?

An even greater problem is that Windows now takes a good 5 minutes from the mouse pointer appearing to it automatically logging me in, and it says it can't find E:\Documents and Settings......\Programs. Which is strange because the partition I formatted was labelled L:. And when I load Windows Explorer, I am perfectly able to read the directory it said was missing, and open edit and save files in it.

I know this is more of a Windows problem, but it started in Linux, and I don't want to post on a Windows forum to be condescendingly told to just use Windows.
If anyone could help, I'd be most grateful.
Guy

1) As far as I can remember:
System Devices-> Device Manager-> Properties for your disk-> Volumes

2) Perhaps check the permissions are ok.

Although it isn't a linux problem we won;t tell you to not to post it but in future please post questions like this in General.

//Even tho the problem may have started in Linux, it is not a problem you have *with* Linux. Let's more it to /General.

How did you partition the drive?

The last time I saw this the extended partition was created as a Windows extended partition and it had this problem.