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October 4, 2000 at 03:09 PM
juansinmiedo

Partition Magic/w2k boot mgr conflict

by juansinmiedo . Updated 25 years, 7 months ago

I recently installed w2kPro on my dual boot win98/NT4 machine. I also decided to smooth things out using Partition Magic. W2kPro has a boot manager that seems to conflict with PM. When I boot up PM comes up with the 3 Primary partitions, but only lets me boot into 98. the other 2 OS’s leave me at a black screen saying “preparing machine to boot w2k or NT” No matter how long I wait, it never boots. When I boot into 98, I get the boot manager from w2k with the options for win2k Pro, NT4 (disguised as win2k Pro) or win 98. I can then boot into any of the 3 OS’s without problem. Any tips as to how to get the Partition Magic to do the job solo? Also how to access the w2k boot mgr and rename the OS’s to NT instead of w2kPro? Thanks for the help.

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