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Norton PartitionMagic 101
Operating system will not boot (bootstrapping issues). If you have two operating
systems that are based on Windows NT (that is, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or
Windows XP) and one of the operating systems is bootstrapping off of the other one,
BootMagic will not work properly for the bootstrapped OS. By default, BootMagic hides
any primary partitions other than the one you choose to boot from. If it hides a partition
that includes the NTLDR and BOOT.INI file (system files that are shared in a
bootstrapped environment), the computer will not boot. There are three ways to resolve
this problem:
• Make sure only one primary partition is visible when you install an NT-based OS, so
that the NTLDR and BOOT.INI are installed in both OS partitions. (This option
avoids bootstrapping, so both operating systems can boot on their own.)
• Use the NT loader menu to boot into the OS you want instead of using BootMagic.
• You may have a bootstrapped operating system but still want to use BootMagic
because you have additional operating systems that are not bootstrapped. In this case,
you should remove the option for the bootstrapped operating system from the
BootMagic menu and choose that OS from the NTLDR menu instead. For example,
assume you had three operating systems installed: Windows 2000, Windows XP, and
Windows 98. If Windows XP were bootstrapped off Windows 2000, it would not
boot if you chose it from the BootMagic configuration menu because BootMagic
would hide the Windows 2000 partition that included critical system files. Instead,
you should make the Windows XP partition visible from the Windows 2000 partition
(see “Configuring BootMagic to Work on an NTFS System” on page 95) and remove
Windows XP from the BootMagic configuration. You would then have two options
on the BootMagic menu: Windows 2000 and Windows 98. You could choose
Windows 98 to boot it directly. If you chose Windows 2000, the NTLDR menu would
appear, allowing you to boot either Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
I cannot install BootMagic on my NTFS system. See “Installing BootMagic on an
NTFS System” on page 92.