Boot Magic

[Guest]

Partition Magic was used to create a 20GB FAT32 partition on a 120GB drive running Windows XP, with idea of eventually creating a dual boot system with Win 98 SE. Boot Magic was intalled on this partition then accidentally deleted, deleting Boot Magic. Now on startup I receive an error message relating to Boot Magic and telling me to reinstall it. I can press Enter and boot into XP. When I attempt to recreate the 20GB partition and reinstall, I receive a message saying it can't find the partition where Boot Magic was previously installed. I would like to remove the bootmanager that creates the message. Anyone know if there's anyway to do this or will I have to completely reinstall and reformat?

My other problem is that this is a new Dell Dimension 8300 and I can't directly access the XP install disk without first using the Dell disk. Trying to get through some of the language barriers with Dell tech help can be frustrating.

 

[Richard]

Hi Linda

What you can do is at the Start button type Run - Regedt.
Then the first thing you should do is File and Export the
registry just in case. You can save it to you desktop.
Then do a search of the registry for all instances of
Boot Magic. As you find them just delete them. Ater you
are done, reboot and you should not get that error
anymore.

-----Original Message-----
Partition Magic was used to create a 20GB FAT32

partition on a 120GB drive running Windows XP, with idea
of eventually creating a dual boot system with Win 98
SE. Boot Magic was intalled on this partition then
accidentally deleted, deleting Boot Magic. Now on
startup I receive an error message relating to Boot
Magic and telling me to reinstall it. I can press Enter
and boot into XP. When I attempt to recreate the 20GB
partition and reinstall, I receive a message saying it
can't find the partition where Boot Magic was previously
installed. I would like to remove the bootmanager that
creates the message. Anyone know if there's anyway to do
this or will I have to completely reinstall and
reformat?

My other problem is that this is a new Dell Dimension

8300 and I can't directly access the XP install disk
without first using the Dell disk. Trying to get
through some of the language barriers with Dell tech help
can be frustrating.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Richard. I'll give it a try.