eveytime i boot, before the log-in screen. just like if the drive actually was corrupt, except there are no errors what-so-ever..
if xp finds a disk has errors while it's running, it flags the drive for disk checking somehow (also if you try to diskcheck a drive being used by the system) and that flagged drive will be tested at the next boot, then the flag will be removed -- thats the way it's supposed to work.
however, somehow the 'flag' got turned on for this particular drive for no apparent reason AND is not being removed by a successful disk-check like it's supposed to.
i would guess that i all i need to do is find out where that 'flag' is stored and remove it -- but i dont know where that flag is. does anybody know? (this is xp, remember)
thanks! 8^)