Have this ever happen to any of you guys? I had a 9gig hard drive on my PC which was running Linux on one partition and win2000 on another. I also had another drive, 30gig in there as the master running win98.

The thing is that one day I removed the linux partion and replaced it with Fat32 to tranfer some files from the drive running 98 so that I could format it. That worked fine but then after I trasnfered the data I started having a few problems. Scan disk was coming up with a few long filenames and invalid formated files, so I just did away with these files but the strangest thing happened. When I restarted the computer the files came back, I found that really strange so I figured that maybe that drive was infected with some virus but the virus checker came up blank.

The next thing to do was format that drive. I formated the drive within win98 then restarted but all data came back. I then proceeded to do the same in dos but the data still came back. So I got a Maxtor drive configurations utility to format that drive and it told me invalid boot sector therefore the drive couldn't be fomated.

What I want to know is if this is just that the drive went bad or is it virus related or is it due to some other thing?

Just wondering, any ideas or suggestions would help...

Thanks..