Originally Posted by JamesYooKay Plus people have told me that Fedora Core 2 had a problem that closely resembles mine.

oh well if that's the case then it's probably a bug in the software then

Many people complain saying that Linux "corrupted" their Windows drive but it's often mentioned somewhere that wrriting to a NTFS partition via Linux can cause problems (and a fault in Linux is not the problem, it's more to do with compatibility) so I assumed this was the issue here