Guest Goldenlight Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 I decided to install Boot Magic on a 50mb partition I created on my hard drive. everything seemed to work great , but now for some strange reason. MY F drive is no longer visible. There for Boot Magic no longer works. I tried to make the drive I installed boot magic on visible, but everytime I restart my system and it says its "unhiding", but when I get back to windows, the drive is hidden. How can I safely uninstall BOot magic.\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 In PM8 did you rt-click the partition>Advanced>UnHide? I would need a detailed description of all your physical hd's, partitions/types on them, and which is the active ...etc......before I could even begin to maybe guess what the problem is. How did you install BTMagic? There's an uninstall in the StartMenu and ControlPanel>Add and Remove Programs. I'm pretty sure it can be done from floppy as well....check out the docs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Goldenlight Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 ok fixed that Now I have another problem. I can't seem to get rid of boot magic. I tried reinstalling it , but I got some kind of error saying it can't find where boot magic was originally installed. Is there something I can clear out of the bootrecord. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Goldenlight Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 problem fixed... went into windowsxp recovery console and type fixmbr..screen goes away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 (edited) http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11887 The biggest advice I can give when messing with PM8/BTMagic is to make sure you have working boot disk for them. The above link will show you how to boot without a linux loader in the mbr or BTMagic. Uses the ntldr.....just how XP/2k like it. oh, and BTMagic can not be on more than one partition at a time. So if you do a bkup, uninstall BTMagic>bkup>reinstall BTMagic. Edited May 30, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Basically with most common boot loader.. MBR (master boot record) contains a pointer and other info pointing to the partition containing more boot loader info. Lose the partition or renumber them, and the MBR can't find its mother ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 The last time I used Partition Magic, was version 3. I did not like the idea of having to have a special partition just for the boot manager. A friend of mine turned me onto System Commander and I have never looked back. One nice thing, is that Mandrake Linux recognizes the System Commander MBR and gives you the option to install lilo/grub in the first sector of the root partition, where SC will load it from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 BTMagic no longer needs it's own partition. Not in PM7 or 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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