Hey all

I have a dell800 dual system with mandrake linux and window xp.
It was fine untill yesterday nite, I was working last nite and shut it off.

Today I just start up the system , it give me an following error
message

error BTMAGIC.IMG
Run BootMagic Install
press key to start

if you press then windows booted up but it didnot recognize other
linux partition.

I want to recover this without loosing any data and want this to
work as before ,how can I do that.

I dont have Boot magic to install at this point. any suggestions
will be very much appreciated.

Can anyone has that file that can be useful to me ?


thanks
kris

this sounds like a dell recovery system where dell assumes MS users will never overwrite their bootloader....if I am right you can verify you have a secret partition....using a live cd such as knoppix....you can then get rid of that partition and correct the partition table....and do not select any so called recovery option at the bios boot up screen

Hey
Thanks for the reply, it didnot help. It still hang and give the error messge.

any other suggestions

cheers
venkt

r U saying that booting a live cd failed?? geesh we are in trouble

thanks for the reply.

I can able reboot with CD but didnot help to fix the problem.
I need get my laptop working dual as before. I dont want to reinstall
anything.

Is it any way to do that? I need my system to recognize both the partition by bootmagic. But I dont have boot magic program to resintall it again.

any way to repair the system without disturbing master boor record.

thanks

well it may be a part of the MBR...the partition table which needs repairing.

without commiting any changes...reboot the live cd and
1 tell us which live cd U r using pls?
2 the output of
fdisk /dev/hda (or sda) etc
3 how does that output fit with your knowledge of the sizes of the partitons?
4) what is the bootloader you are using?
5 pls confirm you can still boot into MS?
6) if you can boot into ms post the output of your
c:\boot.ini file