Boot Magic

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From: Richard (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:50:31 -0700

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.
>.
>

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