How to rid myself of Boot Magic

[Anthony Ewell]

Hi All,

My hard drive consists of the following:

P1: DOS
P2: w2k-pro
P3: XP-pro

Boot Magic 4.0 resides on Primary 1 (P1).
Since I upgraded my hard drives, it can not
see part P2 as the hard drive is too big for
Boot Magic 4 to see. I also can not install
Boot Magic 8 to correct the situation as it
requires me to remove Boot Magic 4 first.
(The uninstall does not work since upgrading
the hard drive, as it can not find anything
but P1 and P2.)

I tries going into w2k rescue mode
and fixing the boot sector, but it apparently
fixed the boot sector on P2. :'(

Anyone have a suggestion as to how to rid
myself of Boot Magic 4 on P1?

Many thanks,
--Tony

 

[CS]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:38:35 -0800, Anthony Ewell <[email protected]>
wrote:

Boot with a DOS disk. From the
A:> issue this command:

fdisk /mbr

Of course make sure fdisk.exe is on the bootable DOS disk. That will
remove the Boot Magic MBR.

 

[Anthony Ewell]

Hi CS,

If I do that, I can only boot to P1. Is there a way to
get either w2k's or XP's bootloader on to P1's MBR?

Many thanks,
--Tony

 

[D.R.]

Hi CS,

If I do that, I can only boot to P1. Is there a way to
get either w2k's or XP's bootloader on to P1's MBR?

Use fdisk and set the partition you want to boot from to be the Active
partition.

 

[Bill]

For XP I belive you can boot from the cd and chhose a repair install and
there should be an option to fix the MBR. w2k I expect would have something
similar. As far as I know running this will allow you to choose what
partition or OS to boot from on startup. If I'm wrong here someone correct
me. HTH

 

[Alex Nichol]

Boot Magic 4.0 resides on Primary 1 (P1).
Since I upgraded my hard drives, it can not
see part P2 as the hard drive is too big for
Boot Magic 4 to see. I also can not install
Boot Magic 8 to correct the situation as it
requires me to remove Boot Magic 4 first.
(The uninstall does not work since upgrading
the hard drive, as it can not find anything
but P1 and P2.)

I tries going into w2k rescue mode
and fixing the boot sector, but it apparently
fixed the boot sector on P2. :'(

First - what happens. BM provides a modified boot code on the MBR
(first sector of the physical disk, outside any partition) - this then
looks for the Active partition (in your case the P1) and looks for the
main BM code in it to run.

So you need to restore regular MBR code, and tell it to boot one of the
other partitions. You can do this with say a Win98 startup floppy with
the commands, first
FDISK /MBR
and then
FDISK
and Set partition Active to boot say the W2K one.

Or if such a floppy is not around you can Boot the XP CD and, instead
of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair.

Use
FixMBR
then
diskpart
and its sub-commands
list partition
to find the number of the one you want to make active
select partition n
active
exit

 

[Anthony Ewell]

Anthony Ewell wrote:




First - what happens. BM provides a modified boot code on the MBR
(first sector of the physical disk, outside any partition) - this then
looks for the Active partition (in your case the P1) and looks for the
main BM code in it to run.

So you need to restore regular MBR code, and tell it to boot one of the
other partitions. You can do this with say a Win98 startup floppy with
the commands, first
FDISK /MBR
and then
FDISK
and Set partition Active to boot say the W2K one.

Or if such a floppy is not around you can Boot the XP CD and, instead
of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair.

Use
FixMBR
then
diskpart
and its sub-commands
list partition
to find the number of the one you want to make active
select partition n
active
exit

Thank you! I didn't even realize those commands existed. :-[

--Tony

 

[Al Smith]

Boot Magic 4.0 resides on Primary 1 (P1).

Since I upgraded my hard drives, it can not
see part P2 as the hard drive is too big for
Boot Magic 4 to see. I also can not install
Boot Magic 8 to correct the situation as it
requires me to remove Boot Magic 4 first.
(The uninstall does not work since upgrading
the hard drive, as it can not find anything
but P1 and P2.)

I tries going into w2k rescue mode
and fixing the boot sector, but it apparently
fixed the boot sector on P2. :'(

Anyone have a suggestion as to how to rid
myself of Boot Magic 4 on P1?

Last time I made the mistake of trying Boot Magic (about a year
ago) I had to reformat and reinstall the OS on that computer.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thank you! I didn't even realize those commands existed. :-[

Take a look in Help and Support and search on "Recovery Console
Commands" - including the quotes - and on diskpart for the detail on
that
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