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Originally Posted by Ladybug  Lurkswithin,
Thanks for the response. I downloaded EasyBCD because I heard good things about it. Are you familiar with this program? I'll check out GAG also.
Thanks very much for your help and answer. You pretty much answered all of my questions!  |
Ladybug,
Yes i am familiar with EBCD program and have used it for booting some customers computer for repairing. I have not used it for setting up dual booting as stipulated in the tutorial.
I don't like anything altering my Mastr Boot Record(boot .ini files) as with my experimenting shows it is only asking for trouble sometime down the line. That is why I am partial to a diferent type of boot manager than that which comes with windows....which is not that good to begin with.
I use BootIt NG (terabyte Unlimited) because it allows the installation of multiple operating systems and a great editing tool along with image back-up all without doing any changes to the MBR. If one drive fails it takes me less than 10 minutes to be back up and running simply because the failure of one drive has no bearing to any other as the MBR of each operating system is kept hidden from any others....so I still have complete use of my computer...
The program GAG is very much like the BootIt NG program except there are no other applications. It is simply a boot manager....and it has worked on my test computer for quite sometime. I have 5 operating systems installed with the GAG program. All of them are stripped down XP running various beta programs that I am putting through some real time testing proceedures.