I installed PartitionMagic as I had a 100 GB drive and just a single partition. I have a HP media center desktop with a recovery partition (FAT32) . I decided to partition the single drive into multiple drives so i can group data. All was well till I installed BootMagic which came with the installation package.
The fun started after that . BootMagic for some reason installed only in FAT32 drives and my recovery parition was FAT32 . I did not realize it. The side effect of this problem is BootMagic hides the parition in which it is installed. So i could not see my recovery partition anymore and worse everytime I use PartitionMagic to unhide the partition BootMagic would hide it after a restart . I could not delete BootMagic as my OS could not find it . The only solution was to manually delete bootmagic.
1. From the operating system where BootMagic is installed, go to C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information and remove the directory {B838AD63-FD0C-482C-B124-7116748BAC45}.
2. Go to the Temp directory (for example, C:\Windows\Temp if you are using Windows 98, or C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp if you are using Windows XP) and remove the directory {B838AD63-FD0C-482C-B124-7116748BAC45}.
3. Remove the directory where BootMagic was installed . I had to use PartitionMagic to see the parition and remove the files.
4. Run Regedit, do a global search for the product GUID {B838AD63-FD0C-482C-B124-7116748BAC45}, and remove all matching key entries.
I started getting an error “Error finding BootMagic” after this . So I created another FAT32 partition and then installed Bootmagic and uninstalled it without a reboot and it finally WORKED.
