Re: Remove Dual Boot - Partition and Boot Magic

From: Homer (Homer_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:57:03 -0800

Sunny, same advice I gave to the others. MAKE PM boot floppies and use these.
Delete ME after booting into PM and move/resize XP to fill (I assume they're
both on the first drive, right? since they are hidden from each other). You
have to use a boot floppy with fdisk on it to clean the rest of the crap
BootMagic installs on the MBR. BootMagic and any other boot manager that
requires installation in an OS partition is a piece of CRAP!!!! There are
freeware stand-alone boot-managers that kick their bums but good. The one I
use doesn't even require a primary partition, it's at the end of my drive in
a very small logical partition.

"Sunny" wrote:

> An addition to the thread subject, and plea for guidance :-)
> I have A dual Boot WinME and WinXP set up, thus,
> (2 Hard drives)
> 1. Win ME and Partition Magic with Boot Magic installed on "C".
> 2. WinXp and Partition Magic installed on "C".
> 3. An "E" partition for data.
> (Each "C" is hidden from the other OS)
> 2nd Hard drive has "D" and "F" partitions.
> "F" partition is NTFS, the other 4 are FAT32.
>
> Boot Magic requires a FAT32 partition, but cannot be installed with the
> WINXP OS, because it won't instal more than once on the same PC.
> The hidden WinME partition can be "browsed" using Partition Magic, and files
> can be deleted and modified.
> The time has come to get rid of WinME without destroying a very stable
> WinXP.
> (Brought to a head when I increased RAM to 1Gb, and WinME almost loads but
> shuts the PC down before completion)
> Can't get into Boot Magic now to alter it.
> Gratefull for any help, Partition Magic/Boot Magic help covers everything,
> but what I want to do.
>
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>
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>

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