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SOFTWARE: New Product: PowerBoot (Selects between OSes at BOOT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bradford)
Thu Oct 30 18:47:23 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 30 Oct 1997 18:09:00 -0400
From: tbrad@wilmington.net (Thomas Bradford)
Reply-To: bmt@wilmington.net
Reply-to: bmt@wilmington.net
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New Product: PowerBoot
Product Category: Utilities
Filename: pb099b.zip
Filesize: 21k
Registration: $25 / 45 DM / 16 Sterling
Available at: http://www.bmtmicro.com
* Note - see bottom of post for new version/pricing information.
Description:
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Power Boot is a boot utility that allows you to select which Operating System
you wish to boot if you have multiple OS's on your drive(s).
If you want to install more than one Operating System in your PC, you will
want to install them in different partitions so that each Operating System
runs in its native environment.
All you need then, is the ability to boot from the different partitions, Power
Boot is more versatile and much less expensive than another popular program.
If you use Partition-It or Partition Magic, Power Boot is an ideal and
inexpensive companion. You can create multiple partitions with Partition-It or
Partition Magic and then use Power Boot to boot from any one of the
partitions.
If your company is using Partition Magic 3.0 and you don't want to pay an
exorbitant price for Boot Manager licenses, Power Boot is an excellent
alternative.
Power Boot Features include:
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Unlike OS/2 Boot Manager, Power Boot does not occupy a primary partition entry
and you can therefore use all four primary partitions in a hard disk for
different operating systems.
OS/2 boot drive letter : you can choose which drive letter an
OS/2 HPFS partition can be booted with.
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.
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 operating system.
Power-Chain enabled. You can install more than one utility in the MBR of your
hard drive.
Features new to Version 2.0 include:
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File system independent: Power Boot still works when you decide to upgrade the
file system (e.g. FAT16 to FAT32).
Simple to use : autodetects partitions and no configuration is necessary to
use it.
Password : to prevent someone else from changing the boot defaults or to boot
from another partition. Or, as one user put it, to prevent kids from booting
other more 'sensitive' operating systems.
Save last boot : if you boot from an extended partition or from a partition on
a hard drive other than the first one, this partition will become the default
partition. Power Boot will always boot this partition without any user
intervention.
Save option settings : all options you set during a boot session with Power
Boot will be saved so that the next time Power Boot starts up, it will use the
same options.
Variable timeout : the timeout delay is can now be between 4 to 32 seconds.
Quiet mode : Power Boot can now start up with just a simple copyright message.
Drive swap : if you choose to boot from a partition that is not on the first
hard drive, you can select a mode whereby this hard drive will be logically
swapped with the first one.
Note: We are distributing PowerBoot 2.0 which is a new release. The shareware
version available now is at 1.0 however all new orders will receive 2.0.
Also, with the release of 2.0 the price went from $15 to $25. The price in
the 1.0 shareware copy is no longer applicable.
BMT Micro, Inc.
5019 Carolina Beach Rd. Suite 202
Wilmington, NC 28412
800-414-4268 - Sales 910-791-7052 - Inquires
910-350-2937 - Fax
http://www.bmtmicro.com ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro
bmt@wilmington.net
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