b/web....ah ha! I'm talking version 5 :-) I suppose that is
whay you get it essentially for free, as an inducement to
upgrade to the current version, you see version 3 is a couple of
years old. Anyway, the main window you are seeing seems to be
quite a bit different than the main window pictured in my
version 3 manual (I have the manuals for versions 3, 4 & 5), so
let's assume that the version 3 that came with your distro is
not the same as the version 3 that was sold several years ago.
The bottom line here is, if windows is booting then I was
incorrect and your windows partition is active and we can forget
this part. I suspect that this is so from the other message of
yours (Installation/Cylinder 1024/and/Boot Magic) that I've also
responded to. That response is what you should be concentrating
on.
If you have access to your entire drive (all of the space it is
supposed to have), then your bios is set correctly.
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Alan,
> I do not seem to be locating the column in partition magic called status?
> Is it past the initial window, the window I see when going into partition
> magic is the exact window pictured in the 'Getting Started Manual', I have
> version 3.0 which comes with the Mandrake CD.
>
> Also before I go any further I wanted to mention that I looked through my
> BIOS again and I located some information that I thought may be important
> to rising above my current challenge of installation;
>
> ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (<P2B-F>)
> CMOS SETUP UTILITY
> AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
> ---------------------------------
> HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ
> SECTOR MODE
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> __________________________________
> PRIMARY MASTER : 17274 2100 255 0
> 33482 63 LBA
> PRIMARY SLAVE :
>
> I thought this might be of some importance, as I read something about 'LBA'
> MODE presenting some sort of problem, and since it is my PRIMARY MASTER and
> it mentions CYLS 2100. Is this perhaps a portion of my installation
> difficulty and the 1024th-cylinder location?
>
> b/web
>
> At 02:27 PM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> 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???
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
