b/web....partition magic has a column called status. The dos
partition that is to be booted needs to be marked Active to be
able to boot an there can be only one Active dos partition on
any drive. To set this you choose Operations->Advanced->Set
Active. No, it has nothing to do with the partition's name.
Alan
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>
> Alan, thank you very much, that even sounds *logical* :) yay.
> Now for a really dumb newbie question, How do I set it as visible and where
> do I accomplish this task?
>
> PS I did notice when I first installed Partition Magic, that it said that
> my C:\ partition was a *No Name* or un-named partition, which sounds
> exactly like what you have mentioned about my windows partition being
> 'hidden'.
>
> b/web
>
> At 08:17 AM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >b/web....your windows partition is incorrectly set as hidden, it
> >needs to be set as active. If bootmagic is indeed already
> >installed, once you've set the windows partition as active
> >bootmagic will show up, if it is not already installed you'll be
> >allowed to install it.
> >
> >Alan
> >
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> 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???
> >
> >
