Wayne....I noticed your earlier message about this and didn't
respond because I really had nothing constructive to say.
Actually I still don't. :-) Anyway, I use BootMagic on 4
different machines. It's the version which comes with either
version 4 or version 5 of Partition Magic (as far as I can tell
there's no difference).
One machine boots between dos 6.22 and windows98 on a single ide
drive, another boots windowsnt, windows98, and Linux Mandrake 7
on a single ide drive, a third machine boots between windowsnt,
windows98, and Linux Mandrake 7 on two ide drives (and there's
some unpartitioned space left for an upcoming BeOS 4.5 install),
and finally a fourth machine that boots between dos 6.22,
windows98 se, Linux Mandrake 7 and Storm Linux 2000 on dual scsi
drives.
I've never experienced anything like you describe. I wonder if
you are using the same version as I use or maybe the one that
comes bundled with MacMillan's Mandrake 7 distribution? Just a
thought. :-)
Alan
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
