Symantec BootMagic(R) Version 8.05 Table of Contents ----------------- 1. Installing under Windows 2000/Windows XP 2. Booting from Secondary Hard Disks 3. Known Issues A. Removable Media Drives B. Making copies of the Home Partition C. Installing to an NTFS Partition D. Installing to a Compressed Drive E. Uninstalling Manually F. IDE/SCSI Drive Mixes on Windows NT/Windows 2000/Windows XP G. USB Support 4. Running from Rescue Disks 1. Installing under Windows 2000/Windows XP ------------------------------------------- When Installing BootMagic from Windows 2000 or Windows XP, it is recommended that you install to a FAT16 partition. If you install to a FAT32 partition, the rescue diskettes will not see the BootMagic partition. If you do install to a FAT32 partition, you can create rescue diskettes from a Windows 98 or Windows Me machine; then the disks will see the FAT32 BootMagic partition correctly. 2. Booting from Secondary Hard Disks ------------------------------------ To boot from a partition that is not on the first hard disk, you must enable advanced partition hiding. When you select this option, BootMagic hides all primary partitions except for the one you are booting from. This option is turned off by default. To enable advanced partition hiding, click Options > Advanced Partition Hiding from the BootMagic configuration program. 3. Known Issues --------------- A. Problems with some removable media drives will cause significant delays when booting your machine. If you are experiencing long delays and you have a removable media drive, make sure you have a cartridge in the drive when you are booting your machine or configuring BootMagic. B. If you make a copy of the home partition using software such as Norton PartitionMagic(R), you will end up with two partitions that look like the home partition, and the BootMagic configuration program will not run. If your hard drive is in this state, you must boot with the BootMagic rescue disk. The rescue disk will take you through the steps needed to reconfigure BootMagic. C. You cannot install BootMagic on an NTFS partition. D. We recommend that you do not install BootMagic to a partition that already has disk compression installed on it. If you choose to install BootMagic to a partition with disk compression, we recommend you uninstall the disk compression software from your disk before installing BootMagic. For information on uninstalling your disk compression software, see your disk compression documentation. If you decide to install BootMagic onto a drive with disk compression, you must make sure the portion of the disk that is not compressed (the host partition) is large enough for BootMagic. BootMagic must be installed on the uncompressed portion of your hard disk. For information on adjusting free space from the compressed volume to the host partition, see your disk compression documentation. For BootMagic to operate correctly, ensure the disk compression software is configured to make the host partition visible and assign it a drive letter. If your host partition is set to Hidden, BootMagic may continue to install, but you will not be able to run the BootMagic Configuration program or uninstall BootMagic. If BootMagic tries to install to a drive letter that you are not aware you have, your system may have disk compression software installed and it may have hidden the host partition. E. To uninstall BootMagic manually, do the following: Disable BootMagic in the BootMagic Configuration program by unchecking the "BootMagic Enabled" check box and clicking the "Save/Exit" button. Reboot your machine and delete the \BTMAGIC.PQ subdirectory. F. If you are running Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP on a computer with both SCSI and IDE hard disks, and you have set your computer to boot from one of the SCSI drives, the drives may appear in a different order in the BootMagic Configuration program than they appear at boot time. This can result in BootMagic failing to appear after installing from Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. Also, menu items added to the BootMagic menu under Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windowx XP may not be found at boot time. As a work-around, install BootMagic from Windows 9x or Windows Me and run the BootMagic Configuration program from Windows 9x or Windows Me. G. If you have a USB keyboard, you may not be able to use BootMagic. If you have a USB mouse, you may need to use the keyboard instead of the mouse to make selections in BootMagic. 4. Running from Rescue Disks ---------------------------- If you boot from the BootMagic rescue disks and they cannot find the BootMagic configuration program, BootMagic will be disabled and PQBoot will run instead. PQBoot will display the primary partitions on the first hard disk, so you can boot the computer. From PQBoot, choose an operating system where you can access the BootMagic configuration program (preferably the operating system where you installed BootMagic), then repair BootMagic from within that operating system. ================================================================= Copyright 1994-2004 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. BootMagic and its use are subject to a license agreement and are also subject to copyright, trademark, patent and/or other laws. Refer to the user guide for additional information about Symantec patents. Symantec, Norton PartitionMagic, and BootMagic are registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation. 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