Hello,
Just read your e-mail regarding Boot Magic. Well, I had the exact same
problem. What I ended up doing (I've got a WD 20gig HD) was to format
the whole drive (yuck) using 16 bit partitions rather than 32 bit.
Consequently, I was only able to partition a windows partion a bit over
2 gigs. Since I don't have a great need for Windows, I didn't mind the
smaller partition. Since then, it has worked just fine. If you find
out any way to overcome this, please let me know! I'd be greatly
appreciative!
Mike
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>Hi,
>
>I bought Mandrake 7.0 and began to install it but am having a problem
>installing Boot Magic.
>
>I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive
and
>then it asked me to insert the Mandrake CD instead of the Boot Magic
CD
>which the installation manual calls for.
>
>When I do attempt to install Boot Magic I get an error message that
says;
>
>Cannot install Boot Magic because
>
>1) There are no visible FAT16 or FAT32 primary partitions that are
>completely below cylinder 1024 on the first hard disk or
>
>2) Boot Magic is already installed to a hidden partition
>
>Which is not possible as I have deleted the new Linux partitions I
made,
>and then uninstalled Partition Magic and then I tried to install Boot
Magic
>First, but I got the same error message.
>
>Any helpful thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Much thanks,
>b/web
>
>PS My system is FAT32 so I do not understand how it can not see that
unless
>it does not look at the WINDOWS Partition???
>
