Windows trouble -- Can Linux help?

[Luke Francl <fran0382@tc.umn.edu>]

Hi all...I run a dual boot Linux/Windows 95 system (gotta have my
Half-Life!). Recently, I kind of screwed up Windows. I was shutting my
computer down, and Windows was hanging at the shutdown screen as so often
happens...I got impatient with this, so I just turned it off.
Unfortunately, the next time I booted to Windows, it had to run scandisk,
which worked fine on my 4 gig drive, but choaked (sp?) on my 8 gig drive
-- saying it was out of memory, run scandisk in windows. Then, it gives me
an error that says: "C:\WINDOWS\system\vmm32.vxd Missing/Unable to load"
and stops right there.

I went into my CMOS setup and disabled my 8 gig drive, and windows booted
perfectly, no errors whatsoever. Also, I can still see all the files on
hdb* when I'm in Linux -- everything on that hard drive is fine as far as
I can tell. Heck, I installed Slackware 3.6 off of it!

I doubt this is of any pertience, but my hard drive is divided into 4
partitions:
	hdb1: 2 gig vfat
	hdb2: 2 gig vfat
	hdb3: 2 gig ext2
	hdb4: 2 gig ext2

Anyway, this kind of sucks, because I'm rather fond of my 8 gig hard drive
(and all those mp3s...;). Does anyone know how I could fix this (sans the
oft-repeated advice "reinstal windows"?) or where I could turn (is there a
TCWUG? ;) to find out more info on how to fix this problem?

Thanks,
	Luke