Bill
Fri Mar 23 21:33:05 CDT 2007
Are you also using BootMagic to manage your boots. The following may help
if you are. It was posted during the build 5270 timeframe on Vista. I'm
still using this method but you must have a floppy drive that you can boot
from. My versions of PM/BM are the PowerQuest versions, I beta tested for
them for a number of years, but the Symantec versions are identical except
for the branding. Also, make sure you have either the ver 8.01/8.02 patch
installed and have created the boot floppies from both BM/PM AFTER the patch
is installed. The patch you need depends on the ver you have installed.
The 8.01/2 patches are available at
ftp://updates:pq@ftp.powerquest.com/PartitionMagic
On this page you will see two folders. The next step will depend on the
version of PartitionMagic you have installed.
--If you have PartitionMagic 8.01, double-click on the folder labeled PM801,
then download the file ENPM801_H1.ZIP to your desktop.
--If you have PartitionMagic 8.02, double-click on the folder labeled PM802,
then download the file ENPM802_H1.ZIP to your desktop.
The downloaded file is password protected. To extract its contents, use the
password "pm1513" (without the quotation marks.)
To install the patch, follow the instructions in the text file "PM 1513 -
Readme file.txt," which is included in download file.
BullDawg
From: "Bill Sharpe, BullDawg" <eschol@remove_this.shinbiro.com>
Newsgroups: microsoft.beta.longhorn.setup_and_migration
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: Setup using PowerQuest's BootMagic
Long read, but worth it to any using PowerQuest's BootMagic 8.01.
Earlier builds posed no problems, just used the same techniques I had been
using with XP, but 5270 presented new challenges, finally got them licked.
My setup includes two hard drives, the first partitioned into four primary
partitions, no logical or extended partitions and the second drive, one
primary as FAT32. Was using BootMagic's default partition hiding which hid
all partitions except the install partition on the boot drive and unhid the
partition on the non-boot drive. This always kept my OS's on a "C"
partition and kept the other three OS partitions hid but allowed the second
drives primary partition to be enumerated as "D" by default. The first
drives primary partition is a small 24 meg FAT(12) partition with MS DOS 6.2
as the OS. I copied the 16 bit BM dosrescue disk to this partition and
edited the autoexec. bat, autexec2.bat and config.sys files accordingly to
allow it to boot into BootMagic 16 bit. Then I used BootMagic to set
Primary 2, NTFS, as the default boot which contains Win XP Pro SP2 fully
patched and up to date as the production OS. Primary 3 and 4 are used to
test other OS's. Whenever I wanted to install a test OS, I just used
BootMagic to boot into primary one and configured BootMagic to set one of
the other (3 or 4) primaries as the default boot. Then would reboot and
install the test OS to the partition selected. As I said, this all worked
great prior to 5270.
5270 wanted to have its own way and install the boot files to primary 2
which contained Win XP Pro. On the first reboot of setup, I would get an
error that Bootmgr was missing. That's because it was on primary 2 and not
4 and with primary 4 set as the boot partition by BootMagic, primary 2 was
hidden from 4, catch 22. Setup could not continue no matter what I tried.
I had to enable BootMagic's advanced hiding to finally get the boot files on
primary 4 where they belonged. I had to configure BootMagic to hide all
other partitions and drives, set the default boot partition to primary 4 and
then disable BootMagic. This finally allowed setup to place everything on
primary 4. After successfully getting 5270 installed, I then used
BootMagic's rescue floppy to re-enable BootMagic. Booted into BootMagic on
primary 1, reset the default boot back to primary 2 and set the time on the
BootMagic boot menu to 10 seconds. I now can boot into the OS's on primary
2, WinXP Pro; primary 3, other NDA OS; and primary 4, Vista 5270; without
any interaction between the three and the MS DOS on primary 1. Each OS uses
it's own boot files without any dependency on the other OS's. And that's
why I don't want to use Windows XP or Vista's boot manager, my OS's are
totally independent of each other and don't rely on another to boot. I can
reformat and install to each primary without fear of affecting another OS
boot.
And the $64k question, why was the way 5270 setup enumerates and unhides
hidden partitions changed from previous builds? Took me over a week to come
up with my work around.
Bill Sharpe
BullDawg
"MadMax75th" <MadMax75th.2nwmbe@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> PLEASE HELP!! Trying for months & give up, retry again etc. OK, I have
> XP Home 32 originally installed on puter. I Used Partition Magic 8.0
> to try installing a 2nd OS (XPx64) on a newly created partition. First
> partition is 110 GBs my new partition is 30 GBs. Hard-drive 160 GBs. I
> follow the printed directions & I boot to new partition, it tells me its
> the wrong disk but when I press any key to boot from CD, all starts
> well. I get the blue setup screen & it starts installing the various
> drivers etc & finally gets to a place that informs me that "Windows
> will now restart" but it never does. It just sits there waiting to
> reboot or restart. I try restarting manually but it just re-installs
> drivers until it gets to "Windows will restart" again!! I am going
> nuts! I contacted Symantic Support but they said I have to have x64
> installed first to add XP32 but I have read here & been told that "NO,
> it's XP 32 first & then u can load a partition with XP 64." So Symantic
> is misinformed!
> My specs if it helps are:
>
> Board: ASUSTeK A8N-SLI DELUXE 1.XX
> AMD 4800+ Dual Core Processor
> c: (NTFS on drive 0) 160.03 GB 89.88 GB free
> SONY DVD RW DW-D26A [CD-ROM drive]
> SONY DVD RW DW-D26A [CD-ROM drive]
> 3.5" format removable media [Floppy drive]
> Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
> 2816 Megabytes Installed Memory
> Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
> Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB
> Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
> Slot 'A3' has 1024 MB
>
> If you need any more info about anything, I will gladly comply. I am
> NOT very knowledgeable about computers so please be specific & basic
> about what I need to do to install this correctly.
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance!
> Max
>
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