I copied my 30gig onto the 60gig with norton ghost, then formatted the 30gig. When both drives were in and I booted up, I got an error "invalid pagefile in non-paged area" but ignored it cause it only happened when both drives were in there. I installed linux on the 30gig (500mb swap and the rest native) and it said it was successful. I installed LILO on the the 30gig, which it said was the hdd1.

I then booted it up with both drives, and windows loaded as it should since ntldr was in the mbr. It said KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED and said something about datestamp on a bsod then shut down, right after I entered the password for my network privilages.

When it restarted, many files were gone or corrupt, since it didnt shut down normally.


Now, I can still format and everything, but how do I avoid this next time???