Ouch!  Thanks for the warning, I for one, will steer clear!

Mike

Wayne Petherick wrote:
> 
> I have to ask the following question.  SO many people use boot magic here and
> claim its usefulness I feel I should share my horror story.  Perhaps someone
> can tell me how to fix it.
> I installed BM and run the software to install the boot manager.  When it
> detected my OS's, it found 2 windows partitions (true but only one is bootable)
> and no linux partitions.  I removed the second windows partition from the
> manager as I didn't want to boot to it (no need) and added my linux partition.
> When I restarted, and selected linux, it said something to the effect of
> loading linux but then just hung.  It started windows OK, but the only way to
> get back in to linux was through my boot disk.  When I did go back into windows
> I noticed that the second windows drive I had removed from the boot manager was
> totally gone!  It trashed the partition completely and I lost all of the
> software I had sitting on that drive.
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Wayne

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