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SOFTWARE: Boot from any partition with Power Boot!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benedict Chong)
Sun Apr 27 15:48:38 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 27 Apr 1997 19:06:27 GMT
From: bluesky6@ix.netcom.com (Benedict Chong)
Reply-To: bluesky6@ix.netcom.com (Benedict Chong)
Reply-to: bluesky6@ix.netcom.com (Benedict Chong)
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Power Boot is a System Commander(TM)-like utility.
If all you need is the ability to boot from different partitions, Power Boot
is more versatile and much less expensive than System Commander(TM).
Features include:
- hide/unhide partitions on the fly as you boot up. There is no need to run
another program in order to hide or unhide partitions. OS/2 Users will not
have to run that horrible FDISK program to hide or unhide partitions.
- Power-Chain enabled: to link other MBR programs like The Z-pA
- Give names to your partitions like 'OS/2 Warp' or 'MSDOS 6.22' for easy
identification
- Boot from any one of 64 partitions in any drive. Only limited by the ability
of the OS to be booted from a drive other than C. E.g. Linux can be booted
from any drive or partition. MSDOS must be booted from Drive C. OS/2 Warp
can even be booted from a logical drive.
- Supports LBA mode for hard drive access in order to launch partitions in
hard drives larger than 8GigaBytes.
- Once the operating system is loaded, Power Boot does not occupy any memory.
- Unlike OS/2 Boot Manager, Power Boot does not occupy one partition entry -
limiting you to 3 primary partitions. Power Boot allows you the full 4
primary partitions per hard disk.
- One touch option to configure your system to update an Operating System.
- One touch option to configure your system to install an OEM version of an
operating system e.g. Windows95 OSR2. Very often, these OEM versions will
not install if they detect another OS on the system.
The evaluation version of Power Boot is available for download at:
http://www.netcom.com/~bluesky6
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