~OT~_Bootit NG

[anomalous]

I'm considering trying and purchasing Bootit NG and have a few questions:

1) Are there any limitations or caveats?

2) Is it worth buying the BING\IFW package deal?

3) Can it see NTFS partitions when restoring?

4) Unrelated: How can one see NTFS partitions outside of windows?


Any info appreciated, including answers to questions I may not have thought
to ask.



Thanks,

Anom

 

[Airman Thunderbird]

http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I'm considering trying and purchasing Bootit NG and have a few
questions:
1) Are there any limitations or caveats?

2) Is it worth buying the BING\IFW package deal?

3) Can it see NTFS partitions when restoring?

I'm not a BING user, so I'll let someone else answer the
questions above.

4) Unrelated: How can one see NTFS partitions outside of
windows?

Only with a third-party program. For example, you can see NTFS
partitions from DOS by using NTFSDOS.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I'm considering trying and purchasing Bootit NG and have a few questions:

1) Are there any limitations or caveats?

I got involved as a Beta tester of it, and find it excellent. A couple
of points:
If you only want to use Partitioning / imaging aspects, do not bother to
install. Boot the floppy (or CD) and cancel install, thus entering
Maintenance for Partition Work

If using as a Boot Manager, install to its own partition if possible -
that means either limiting to two other primaries and an extended on
that drive (or three primaries) or using its 'relax number of primaries'
which needs thinking out, and I would try to avoid. Use its Boot Edit
to make the boot instances - avoid the old style 'Direct Boot'

2) Is it worth buying the BING\IFW package deal?

IFW has the big benefit of being able to create the images when running
Windows - even of the partition where the Windows is running. I have
two separate Windows partitions run using BING to dual boot and hidden
from each other; I can image the one I am using with IFW, to a second
physical drive, use the other boot to restore from, with BING Itself in
reserve. Because it uses the Windows drivers, this is faster than BING
itself

3) Can it see NTFS partitions when restoring?

Yes. And can make/restore to and from file sets in NTFS partitions. Or
onto CD sets (in practice DVD - about 7GB data will compress to a single
DVD) or external USB or Firewire hard drives

4) Unrelated: How can one see NTFS partitions outside of windows?

There are auxiliary drivers you can download for a DOS boot to read
NTFS; ones to write it as well are expensive and I would be cautious
about compatibility with XP NTFS. Or a bootable CD of the Knoppix
version of Linux will read an NTFS disk for emergency rescue of files

 

[anomalous]

I'm considering trying and purchasing Bootit NG and have a few questions:

1) Are there any limitations or caveats?

2) Is it worth buying the BING\IFW package deal?

3) Can it see NTFS partitions when restoring?

4) Unrelated: How can one see NTFS partitions outside of windows?


Any info appreciated, including answers to questions I may not have
thought to ask.



Thanks,

Anom

Thanks for all your responses!

 

[anomalous]

I got involved as a Beta tester of it, and find it excellent. A couple
of points:
If you only want to use Partitioning / imaging aspects, do not bother to
install. Boot the floppy (or CD) and cancel install, thus entering
Maintenance for Partition Work

If using as a Boot Manager, install to its own partition if possible -
that means either limiting to two other primaries and an extended on
that drive (or three primaries) or using its 'relax number of primaries'
which needs thinking out, and I would try to avoid. Use its Boot Edit
to make the boot instances - avoid the old style 'Direct Boot'

Thanks, Alex, for your detailed response. It was very helpful in helping me
decide.