Our program enables to easily manage several operating systems on one computer with the help of the Boot Manager Setup Wizard. Among the key features of the wizard the following should be mentioned:
- Up to 16 operating systems on one PC;
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Secure adding/removing of the BootManager startup record to/from the MBR is the 0th sector of the disk. MBR (Master Boot Record) contains important information about the disk layout: - The used partitioning scheme; - The starting records of the Partition Table; - The standard bootstrap code (or the initial code of boot managers, disk overlay software or boot viruses). Generally, the 0th sector is used for similar purposes in all existing partitioning schemes. The MBR capacity is not sufficient to contain sophisticated boot programs. That's why the on-boot software is allowed to use the entire 0th track of the disk. For example, boot managing utilities such as LILO, GRUB and Paragon Boot Manager are located in the 0th track.;
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Auto Boot option to automatically start up the previously chosen OS after a cerain time period;
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Hiding of any primary partition except seleted at the moment.
The wizard is so well designed that the user simply needs to follow its easy instructions to properly configure the startup process.
Starting
There are several ways to start the Boot Manager Setup Wizard:
- In the Main menu: select Tools > Boot Manager…
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On the Common Tasks bar: click the Boot Manager Wizard item of the Wizards menu.
After following one of the above mentioned actions, the Welcome page of the wizard is displayed.
Settings
The Boot Manager Setup Wizard allows the user to configure the settings and then start the operation in accordance with the entered parameters. Here the user should set the following parameters:
- Hiding other primary partitions. By marking this option the program will automatically assign the hidden flag to all primary partitions of the hard disk(s) except the one selected to boot. This will help to avoid any problems when dealing with different operating systems or different versions of one and the same OS, as they will be unaware of each other.
- Boot menu options. In this section the user can switch between the following modes:
- Normal mode. Choose this mode to display the boot menu every time the computer starts up and define a timeout on the expiry of which the program will automatically select the previously chosen item of the menu.
- Hidden mode. Choose this mode not to display the boot menu until pressing a hot key. For this mode the user should define a hot key used to enable the Boot Manager and a time period in seconds the startup message will be displayed.
- Deactivating/Configuring the Boot Manager. These two options will only be available once the wizard has been completed and launched again. Select the Deactivate option to remove the Boot Manager from the MBR (Master Boot Record) or Configure to modify the previously set parameters of the startup process.
Results
After the Boot Manager Setup Wizard is completed the program updates the original record in the MBR to get control of the booting process and to be able to display the boot menu.