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To: thecow who wrote (26876)	5/10/2002 1:43:52 PM
From: Robert Graham	Read Replies (1) of 110631

I am still having trouble setting up a dual-boot configuration with Partition Magic and Boot Magic. Apparently it is not as simple as installing and configuring Boot Magic. I installed this program on the FAT32 disk where my Win98SE resides, because apparently Boot Magic can only be installed on a FAT partition. The program did not auto-detect the WinXP installation, which it is able to according to documentation. So I added this to the boot menu of Boot Magic. The program suggested partition hiding. I chose this option. In "advanced" settings, it showed disk #1 to be used for WinXP, which is not true. So I changed the reference form disk #1 to disk #2 where WinXP resides. I discovered I could boot up Win98SE, but not WinXP. I went back and found disk #1 still being referenced. So I thought to try something different by resetting the "hide partition" option. This did not work. I read further and found there may be some machinations I have to do with Partition Magic to get this to work. The documentation only covers the dual booting from a new installation of the operating systems. Here they also refer you to the Microsoft documentation on this topic. I cannot find any explicit instructions related to dual-booting operating systems that have already been installed. So I will look into this more. During this procedure, I checked to see if I can still boot WinXP bypassing boot magic by specifying in CMOS the WinXP drive as the boot drive. This worked. The next morning I found I could no longer boot WinXP. I rewrote the boot partition from the recovery console. Here it indicated there is a "foreign" partition. I rewrote the boot record anyway. This did not work. So I decided to install Partition Magic. Here it indicated that the WinXP was now a hidden partition. So I instructed Partition Magic to unhide the partition. When I found that I still could not boot WinXP, I went back into Partition Magic and found the WinXP partition not Active. So I made it active. Now I can boot WinXP. If I want to boot Win98SE, I need to do this through the CMOS configuration menu of my system. Any ideas? :-) Bob Graham

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