BootMagic: corrupt installation

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Hello,

Yet another problem with Boot Magic. I want to have two XP
installation SP2 (one for myself and one to replicate clients' one)
based on NTFS. Stupid me, at some point, I deleted the FAT partition
containing Boot Magic; since then, I cannot use or re-install
BootMagic.

The message says "Setup cannot find the location of where BootMagic
was originally installed. Make sure the volume BootMagic is installed
on is visible, and is assigned the same drive letter as at the time of
install. Setup will now exit." From other news I learned I should
overwrite the MBR. I did so from the Recovery Console with fixmbr,
even continued with fixboot. However, with me it does not work! The
same error message! Where else is that information telling BootMagic
about a previous installation?

Related or not, I had a problem with the InstallShield. Another
installation claimed it to be corrupted, and I installed a hotfix from
Microsoft. That fix solved the other problem, but didn't help with
BootMagic.

I thought of cleaning the registry, but that is new to me, and I don't
know which entries to delete.

Restoring the system doesn't work either as all the restore points are
gone. Don't know how I managed that, though.

Now, I am running out of ideas. Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Bjoern
.

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