Its been a long time, my final resolution was to call Maxtor tech support and get an RMA, they mailed me a new hard drive ... everything installed and works fine on it - even a 100% NTFS Win2K partition.
Thank you for such a quick response. Yes, it is possible that these .tmp files are generated by either the OS or by a program / driver. These files may be simply coincidental to my other issues. The largest issue being that I am unable install Windows 2000 at all or Windows 98SE cleanly - BTW...
This is a tough one! I have picked up something nasty and so far no anti-virus / anti-trojan I have tried detects it. I think that this hides in either the flash memory of the BIOS, or the flash memory of the Network Card - I don't think that an ATA controller could hide malicious code in its...
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