Can FreeBSD Install damage an NTFS Partition

[James R. Phillips]

Hi,

I just installed freebsd on the second disk drive of a dell precision 
650 computer with win2k installed on the first disk drive, NTFS 
partition (slice).  Both disk drives have multiple partitions, but I 
created free space on the second for the freebsd 4.9-386 install.

During the install, I created one freebsd slice in unpartitioned free 
space, and left other partitions (slices) undisturbed.  I did not choose 
to install the boot loader in the first disk mbr, preferring to continue 
to use grub (I already had a win2k/linux multiboot setup).

After the install was complete, all seemed well until I tried to boot 
back into win2k.  It appears that the file system was somehow damaged, 
because I kept getting a BSOD during the boot.  The only way I could 
find to fix it was to restore the NTFS c:\ partition from backup.

So - can a FreeBSD install in free space on the second drive somehow 
damage an NTFS partition on the first drive?  Has this happened to 
anyone else?

Thanks