Uninstalling Partition Magic/Boot Magic

[Jack Storlie]

I loaded this software on My XP Home edition and cannot
remove the remaining fragments. At boot time, I get the
message:

Error finding BTMAGIC.IMG
Run Boot Magic Install
Press any key to boot active partition

At this time I am able to get the Desktop back. I had
gone to the registry/HKLM/Software and removed PowerQuest
from the list, but still have this problem.
Any help will be appreciated.
Jack

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I loaded this software on My XP Home edition and cannot
remove the remaining fragments. At boot time, I get the
message:

Error finding BTMAGIC.IMG
Run Boot Magic Install
Press any key to boot active partition

At this time I am able to get the Desktop back. I had
gone to the registry/HKLM/Software and removed PowerQuest
from the list, but still have this problem.
Any help will be appreciated.
Jack
.
Try reinstalling it and then uninstall it again.

 

[Jack]

Try reinstalling it and then uninstall it again.

I had thoght of that, but was afraid to. I will try your
advice and see what happens. Cant get much worse I would
think.
Jack

 

[I'm Dan]

I loaded this software on My XP Home edition
and cannot remove the remaining fragments.
At boot time, I get the message:

Error finding BTMAGIC.IMG
Run Boot Magic Install
Press any key to boot active partition

At this time I am able to get the Desktop back.
I had gone to the registry/HKLM/Software and
removed PowerQuest from the list, but still have
this problem. Any help will be appreciated.

When BM installs, it saves your original MBR and replaces it with a custom
version that loads the BM menu display. Ideally, when you uninstall BM it
should put the original MBR back. It sounds like that didn't happen here
(or perhaps you uninstalled incorrectly). That error is the custom MBR
telling you it can't find the menu display (probably because it got tossed
out with the BTMAGIC.PQ directory).

The solution is to replace the custom MBR with a standard version. Boot
from your XP CD, go into recovery console, and issue the command "fixmbr".
That should replace the MBR with a Microsoft version.

 

[Jack]

The reinstall and uninstall seems to have worked. Thanks
ever so much