hey all

Recently I have some problem with my dell800 dual system both xp and linux.

I use bootmagic for parition and boot, it was fine untill last week, but
today when I was startup it give me error message btmagic.img is missiong?
and it boots to ntfs window not to linux.

After rebooted several times, it now booting dell utility program from
windows (think there is parition as DE) which started rebooting all the time
nver let me back to ntfs to boot in xp window?

If anyone knows to solution how to change back to ntfs to boot xp?

It is getting annoying that the utility becomes endless process back back
back not to to xp.


Some one suggested me to boot from CD-ROM? but I donot have bootable disk
and then dont know how to fix or back to ntfs to boot in xp?

I dont have floppy drive in my laptop.

Where I can get the bootable CD for Xp sevice pack 1?

Help will be more appreciated this time, very much frustrated with the
laptop now.


thanks

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"k" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> hey all
>
> Recently I have some problem with my dell800 dual system both xp and
> linux.
>
> I use bootmagic for parition and boot, it was fine untill last week, but
> today when I was startup it give me error message btmagic.img is missiong?
> and it boots to ntfs window not to linux.
>
> After rebooted several times, it now booting dell utility program from
> windows (think there is parition as DE) which started rebooting all the
> time
> nver let me back to ntfs to boot in xp window?
>
> If anyone knows to solution how to change back to ntfs to boot xp?
>
> It is getting annoying that the utility becomes endless process back back
> back not to to xp.
>
>
> Some one suggested me to boot from CD-ROM? but I donot have bootable disk
> and then dont know how to fix or back to ntfs to boot in xp?
>
> I dont have floppy drive in my laptop.
>
> Where I can get the bootable CD for Xp sevice pack 1?
>
> Help will be more appreciated this time, very much frustrated with the
> laptop now.


Go to Dell and ask them for a copy of your system's oem os installation.
then boot with it and run fixmbr. Do a google search on how to do that.