Re: BootMagic: corrupt installation

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I had a similar problem a while back and had to ask Symantec for help with
the BM error. The solution was very lengthy but you might want to go their
website and ask for help.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
"Bjoern Saentis" <saentis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1b42b990.0504110454.19d390a2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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