But then I regard that kind of utility as more dangerous than helpful. PS -- Some more information that I don't see: You have mentioned that you have XP installed in a partition but you don't mention any other operating systems. Do you have more than one OS installed? If so what are they and what order were they installed in? My own opinion is that you are likely to take much more time trying to rescue the setup you have and end up with something that is still not right.
See if you get any specific suggestions but I'd suggest that your problem is not getting BootMagic to work but in getting the basic environment set up correctly after which you might find that BootMagic does install properly -- that Windows boot manager does not install must indicate something.
On the imaging it takes me 20 minutes to make an image of my 12GB testbeds onto an external USB connected hard drive and about 10 minutes or less to restore I don't know about other makes of hard drive but if your main hard drive is Seagate or Maxtor same company now you can download free a disk management utility that actually includes Acronis TrueImage software but tailored only to work with their drives.
I got useless emails from email support people yesterday; Chat still crashes MS Internet Explorer; so I tried the phone. I got a Norton tech support guy on the phone, and he solved the install problem -- yet another Windows registry uninstall record. I did -- the first chkdsk appears to have changed the security descriptors on every file!!! In my view you need to do more than reinstall WIndows.
You need to back up everything you want to keep on that machine and completely clean the hard drive using Windows based utilities. Whether you need to do one of those zero out the hard drive operations I do not know but you need to do more than simply reinstall WIndows on the existing disk structure. As I see it you really do not have a Norton problem at the moment but a computer problem and I can only suggest that you stop patching and get computing advice.
You will find forums on Compuserve that are civilized and with helpful experienced users:. Or there is Paragon too as a source. But regardless of that I don't think you will get out of the situation by tinkering with one part of it. Back to top. Registriert: Danksagungen 0. Ich habe die gleiche Frage 0. Boot Magic still refuses to install. Can you provide the exact text of error message when you install BootMagic? Make sure the volume Boot Magic is installed on is visible, and is assigned the same drive-letter as at the time of install.
Setup will now exit. The original installation was on F: drive. That partition was deleted. I created a new partition to install Boot Magic on; it is also named F: drive. I will try renaming F: to X:. But I doubt if that will help. Danksagungen 1 Stats. Deleting them did not solve the problem. Saves a lot of headaches in typing!
You asked me to bring up my use of Linux fdisk. I have a GB internal disk and a GB external disk. Message Edited by rhmccullough on PM. That is helpful for use setting drives up after the battery dies. Yes, it is set to AUTO. This is what it was set to when the 6GB original drive was in the machine.
That's why I need to make a backup of the drive first. Can't do that till Thursday. I think I have an XP boot floppy around here somewhere, I have to look. One possible snag, though. Somehow, shutting down XP restored the system to a bootable configuration again, though I don't remember how I did that just now. I know I had to do some clever file and partition management when I set this system up for multi-boot, using boot floppies and file copies until the whole process was configured on the HDD.
I had to use boot floppies, file copying and editing to get it configured. Hmmm, I should have written down the procedure. The thing that bothers me, though, is this "sector not found" message. What does this indicate? It usually means that the hard drive has lost address information on a sector. But since there are ID issues it can possibly indicate other than a hardware problem. Some BIOSs have an additional setup key that allows you to do a scan of IDE devices to see what you have connected and what the settings will be if you use the different drive type selections.
That was what I was suggesting. While you are sorting this out I would suggest that you keep notes of the steps you take. Trying to remember a 3 or 4 hour sequence of setup steps is hard unless you do it often.
Just backtracking - when did you move from the 6GB to 80GB drive? Before the dead battery? My preference for boot manager is www. Never had a serious problem in 6 years. Red Flag This Post Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Step 2: Type the following commands in the Prompt and hit the Enter key after typing each one command.
Here are steps for you. Step 1: Open the Run dialog window by pressing Win plus R keys. Step 2: Type sysdm. Step 3: When the System Properties window pops up, choose the Advanced option. Then click on the Settings under the Startup and Recovery option. Step 4: In the pop-up window, select the Time to display list of operating systems box and set the time value. After that, click OK to save the changes.
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