Problem after installing bootmagic 7

[engan]

Hi, I have a problem accessing my secondary harddisk after installing BootMagic. My first harddisk has win98 and my second harddisk has winme. Before I install bootmagic I can see my second hardddisk as D drive. After I install bootmagic I cannot see my D drive even After I uninstall bootmagic. When I boot up from Secondary harddisk, it says Press a key to bootup. Does anyone know how to fix this problem.

Thanks
Eng An

 

[wolluf]

Did bootmagic hide the partition on the second disk? (boot managers often do this when there are 2 or more win9x/ME systems involved).

If you don't want to reinstall bootmagic, try this utility (it has hide/unhide partition feature - runs in dos/dos box) -

http://www.lpacomputers.telinco.co.uk/PD.zip

 

[engan]

Bootmagic has the configuration utility that can hide the second harddisk, but when I unhide the second harddisk, I still can not see my d drive. It seems that Boot magic changes my d master boot record or harddisk definition. My win98 cannot recognize my second harddisk.

 

[wolluf]

So can you access the second drive at all any more?
Is the bios seeing this second drive?
What happens if you disconnect the first drive and just try booting with second?
Have you got jumper settings ok?

You say can't see second drive from 98 - does that include from fdisk (and also that utility I posted).

 

[engan]

My Bios can see my harddisk but not my win98. When I use Fdisk to display the primary partition, it says Non Dos and file system is empty. But When I connect my second harddisk (winme) again to my win98 which has bootmagic I can boot my winme. So I think bootmagic changes my harddisk definition and only bootmagic can access my winme.

 

[wolluf]

engan - I'm totally lost/don't understand your problem.

If you can boot ME from bootmagic, then the drive should boot on its own, as long as the ME partition is NOT hidden and IS active. Same goes for 98.

Boot managers will generally make the partition you select to boot active, and if more than one 9x/ME/dos operating system involved, they will generally hide the partition of the one that's not being booted by default (I have only limited experience of bootmagic - use boot-us - but the principles are similar for all boot managers). So, if you remove a boot manager and make sure all partitions are unhidden & at least one is active on each drive, both drives/partitions should be visible (and both o/s should be bootable by changing boot sequence in the bios).

So what I am saying is make sure second drive's partition is unhidden and active (that utility I posted will do that) if you want to use it independently.

 

[engan]

wolluf, I just unhide My Winme using partition magic and now I can access my second Harddisk (D Drive). I Think Bootmagic does not unhide my winme (D) drive when I remove my D drive from boot manager.
Thanks for your response
Eng An