BootMagic

[William B. Lurie]

MIsguided into believing that BootMagic is a good program,
I installed it. It did things I didn't want it to, and for the past week

I've been going back and forth with their 'support' to uninstall it.
It's one of few software packages for which no 'Uninstall' exists.

Eventually, I got almost all of it off, but to get my PC to boot up, it
has a minor halt just after the BIOS, requiring me to 'hit any key'
because one file that it still looks for is gone. The final steps
require
that I determine if I'm using compression, or if there's a drive
overlay. I have no answers to those questions; as far as I know, I
have a plain vanilla Windows XP Home installation, made by the
OEM of this PC.

Can some MVP clue me as to how I determine things like
compression and drive overlay? Thank you.

William B. Lurie

[Bill Snyder]

After dumping BootMagic, I finally solved the problem by booting into the
Recovery Console. Then from the command line I ran FIXBOOT and then FIXMBR.
Boot Magic (as well as some other boot managers) messes with both the boot
record for your system drive as well as the Master Boot Record. And Boot
Magic (as you discovered) does not clean up after itself. Also, before you
do the preceding, you should check with Partition Magic whether the small
partition which BM creates at the beginning of the hard disk has been
eliminated and the space merged with your c: drive. Merely removing BM does
not remove that partition.

Bill Snyder

"William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
...
> MIsguided into believing that BootMagic is a good program,
> I installed it. It did things I didn't want it to, and for the past week
>
> I've been going back and forth with their 'support' to uninstall it.
> It's one of few software packages for which no 'Uninstall' exists.
>
> Eventually, I got almost all of it off, but to get my PC to boot up, it
> has a minor halt just after the BIOS, requiring me to 'hit any key'
> because one file that it still looks for is gone. The final steps
> require
> that I determine if I'm using compression, or if there's a drive
> overlay. I have no answers to those questions; as far as I know, I
> have a plain vanilla Windows XP Home installation, made by the
> OEM of this PC.
>
> Can some MVP clue me as to how I determine things like
> compression and drive overlay? Thank you.
>
> William B. Lurie
>
>