could someone help with partition magic?

[maria24]

Hi, I have just being playing around with partion magic and I was trying to set up a duel boot system but have run into a brick wall. I installed the bootmagic program that comes with it onto a new partition that was formatted as a standard FAT and was going to install lunix onto another partition I was about to make but after several resets and a bit of word processing (I had to get on with some real work!) the partioin that had boot magic installed was no longer visable. I deleted the partition that I had installed it upon and thought that would do the trick as I could easily reinstall later but now my attempts to reinstall it are met with a message telling me that it cannot install the runtime, also when I now make a FAT partition on the drive it shows up in partion magic but not in the file manager.

Does anyone know how I can make the partition show up like it did to start with I am reading everything but getting nowhere.

Thanks for rreading

[MDS]

did you make the recovery disk?

Was this set up on a clean drive or was it already in use and you just resized the first partion?