Drive Image 7 & Partition Magic to make dual boot XP

Discussion in 'Software' started by colossal, Sep 2, 2006.

  1. colossal

    colossal Private E-2

    Hi all

    I have formatted my hard drive

    C – main OS NTFS
    E- Data NTFS
    F- Used for Boot Magic (50MB)Fat 32
    G- Second OS NTFS (obviously this will be hidden and unhidden & will be C when active)

    I have a known good image of a C drive. I would like to restore this to the G drive & then use boot magic to switch between the two.

    I can’t seem to get the second boot to work. Is there something wrong with restoring an image that was created from the C drive & restoring it to the G drive ?

    When I tried to boot into the second OS the boot was unsuccessful & hangs sometime during booting XP.

    I am at work so that is my initial question. I can post back with exact error messages when I am at home.

    I have also got in a bit of a mess by doing the following.

    I made an image of C. Installed Bootmagic afterwards. I then restored the C image.
    Bootmagic is now no longer installed in add/remove programmes but when I try to install it I get an error, “please uninstall any previous versions of Bootmagic before proceeding”. Thinking about it maybe formatting the F drive will erase the old install & cure this problem?

    I would really appreciate a bit of help with this.

    Thanks & sorry for the initial lack of detail
     

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