UPDATE

i've now repartitioned all drives to suit and reloaded my 1st ghost image back (with diff snd&gfx card then)
on it and still the DMA problem, so now i'm back with my latest image...

Haven't had any lost fragments since with scandisk, but still it gets the non DMA and compatability mode! and has had 1 boot failier!

one thing that is strange is that at one point only drive C had anything on it and the PC booted normal everytime, so i don't think my boot failier were to do with deleting game folders on my other partitions.

other than DMA these problems are very random and...

Questions...

Any thoughts on why the DMA box doesn't stay checked after reboot on the - primary slave HDD?

Could these probs be related to my BIOS battery, or would it then fail completly until i change it?

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What a nightmare, i might have to try Fresh Win98 Install just to narrow it down a bit... or maybe try SecondEdition or...

Regards