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Resolved Win 7 bootmagic woopsy

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by drowsyd3m0n1c, 2010/08/30.

  1. 2010/08/30
    drowsyd3m0n1c

    drowsyd3m0n1c Inactive Thread Starter

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    I had been running a dual boot with win 7 and XP, win 7 was complaining that it didnt have any hdd space so logically of course delete my XP part. and resize the win 7, with having done so i left the pc running for a few days and forgot to disable bootmagic, now its coming up with an error 8050 no default menu item available to boot. Bootmagic will now boot to your home partition. pres anykey blah blah blah. i've tried disconnecting the HDD that BM is installed on but it still wants to go to BM is there anyway to get past this so i can disable the prog in windows. also YES i have tried running my win 7 cd with no luck and NO i do not have a floppy drive,
     
  2. 2010/08/31
    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff

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    Don't know what you mean by that, but you'll have to boot off your Win7 DVD and run a Startup Repair.
     
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  4. 2010/08/31
    drowsyd3m0n1c

    drowsyd3m0n1c Inactive Thread Starter

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    yeh thats what i meant, nothing i tried would bypass or fix my problem, even with the "bootsect /nt60 c:/" went thru said it fixed the MBR's but it didnt,
    what had happened was it set my C drive to hidden and wouldnt let anything change it, took 3 tries to re-install before i could access the drive, windows setup didnt even want to touch the drive, told me it was an unknown drive type, formatt and everything else.
     
  5. 2010/09/01
    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    Well that's all too often the case when using a 3rd party boot manager, esp that one.
     
  6. 2010/09/03
    drowsyd3m0n1c

    drowsyd3m0n1c Inactive Thread Starter

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    yeh if you forget to disable it after removing a boot partition it doesnt like it, other than that it always did me good.
     

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