[Techtalk] Trouble finding hard drive

[jen]

Hello, I'm new to the list!  Anyways, I have my harddrive partitioned for 
windows and linux (suse), and it's worked fine so far.  Lately however, I 
my computer can't find it's hard disk 24 out of 25 times during booting.  Has
anyone else had this problem?  Could it be the fault of having it partitioned 
off?

Also, if I do have to have one operating system I would keep the suse.  
Unfortunately, I use a lot of microsoft products for school (we have to 
develop with visual studio).  Can I run this off of wine?  Has anyone on the 
list had experience with that?

Okay, enough with the questions.

thanks,

jennifer