How to get rid of BootMagic boot message?

[Felecha]

I have Partition Magic 6.0, which I put on when I upgraded my HP 5470 laptop from ME to Windows 2000 Pro. I kept the barebones ME partitions just because ME comes with DVD software. And I set Bootmagic to boot to W2K as default. Well, I wanted the space, and I haven't even thought of ME or DVD's for months, so I deleted the ME partition and moved W2K in to take the space. I guess BootMagic was on the ME partition, I can't find any trace of it now with Search, but on reboot I get the message BTMAGIC.img not found, hit any key to boot to the active partition.

W2K is the active, and that works, but I can't reboot without actively keying past that now. It must be hidden in the master boot record? I don't know where to go with it now.

I seem to remember something about fdisk /mbr or whatever, to clean things out. But I'm fuzzy on things like that and want some guidance, if you can

Thx

 

[Moohooya]

fdisk /mbr will overwrite the master boot record, but as fdisk is a dos tool, it will put on a dos master boot record. You then won't be able to boot off that drive onto w2k or xp.

Check out How to backup and restore a MBR

But you'll need to fo this W2K recovery. fixmbr