SOT: w2k alters mbr

[rir at attbi.com (Rob Ransbottom)]

That's "Sorta On Topic".

My home computer suffered a lightening strike which
fried much of it.

Buying a new computer, (o joy, (note lowercase)), 
I get w2k with it.  

Being a curious sort I install it, everything
works okay except that w2k sets itself (hda3)
active, stealing the next boot.

Is there any way to stop w2k from doing this,
or to have grub fix it?

Incidentally, the old asus P2D with dual pentium
400s w/ sdram, looks pretty good compared to a asus P4
with a P4-1800 w/ ddram.  The P4 is faster, but the
P2D was always responsive, it rarely buried itself in
one task.

Thanks.


My set up is like so:

hda1 A  8M      ext2    grub
hda2    16Gig   cpm     w98_empty
hda3    16Gig   fat32   w2k
hda4    extended linux
hda5    100M    ext2    rescue
hdb5    250M    ext2    norm_root
and other nonbooting part's

rob                     Live the dream.