HD Redo

[Rocky McGaugh]

note: i am not familiar at all with BM, so YMMV.

you can use a bootable DOS diskette to restore your MBR and it should
boot DOS/WinDOS normally.

boot off the DOS disk, and run "fdisk /MBR".

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Rocky McGaugh                                      Atipa Linux Solutions
Product Development                                        www.atipa.com
rocky at smluc.org                                       rmcgaugh at atipa.com

On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Burt Humburg wrote:

> Stupid Windoze box! Long story short, by reinstalling some CD ROM software
> from a disk supplied with my computer, I have screwed up the drivers in
> Windows such that it won't recognize my CDROM, 3.5 floppy, or ZIP disk
> drives.
> 
> The problem is that, in trying to reinstall the system, I couldn't get past
> the multiple partitions thing. So, I deleted my Linux partition. Wouldn't be
> a problem except that I deleted the partition before I deactivated
> BootMagic. So, now I have a boot manager requesting me to rerun BM setup.
> Unfortunately, BM setup won't work until it has the old Linux partition to
> work from again, and the limited version of BM can't handle anything other
> than a fresh CD-ROM install.
> 
> Can anyone show me how to get past the startup screen that says, "BootMagic
> image file cannot be found. Please rerun BootMagic setup?"? If this were
> something simple like an autoexec.bat or config.sys line that needs to be
> "commented out", I probably could have handled it.
> 
> Or, do I need to reformat my HD?
> 
> BCH
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