Win XP and Bootmagic dualboot problem
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Who Oh Who can help me with this problem?
I have an 80 Gb HD partitioned as follows:
1x Primair/Active 15 Gb Label WinME – incl OS Win ME
1x Primair/Hidden 15 Gb Label WinXP – incl OS Win XP
1x Primair/Hidden 15 Gb Label Linux – Empty
1x Extended/Logical 35 Gb
After installing Win XP as second OS on a separate partition, I restated in ME and installed Bootmagic 7.0.
Now I get the usual menu to choose to OS to be used.
When I choose ME I get ME but when I choose XP I also get ME.
Why does Bootmagic not work properly like this
I have an 80 Gb HD partitioned as follows:
1x Primair/Active 15 Gb Label WinME – incl OS Win ME
1x Primair/Hidden 15 Gb Label WinXP – incl OS Win XP
1x Primair/Hidden 15 Gb Label Linux – Empty
1x Extended/Logical 35 Gb
After installing Win XP as second OS on a separate partition, I restated in ME and installed Bootmagic 7.0.
Now I get the usual menu to choose to OS to be used.
When I choose ME I get ME but when I choose XP I also get ME.
Why does Bootmagic not work properly like this
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Bootmagic can sometimes incorrectly label the partition you want to boot off.
Eg: my 2nd HD which is a bakup is FAT32 and when installing bootmagic it would always put that in the list as an os even though their was no os on it.
Start bootmagic configuration in windows
select add
look in the list for "disk 1" "pri-2"
that should be the winxp install
add it to the list and if it boots after restart remove the other dud entry
Also if it doesnt say under the "used" header "yes" then their is something wrong with the install of the os.
Eg: my 2nd HD which is a bakup is FAT32 and when installing bootmagic it would always put that in the list as an os even though their was no os on it.
Start bootmagic configuration in windows
select add
look in the list for "disk 1" "pri-2"
that should be the winxp install
add it to the list and if it boots after restart remove the other dud entry
Also if it doesnt say under the "used" header "yes" then their is something wrong with the install of the os.
