What MS could do about dual boot

[Roedy Green]

MS is going to have all manner of problems with XP unaware of the new
Vista boot manager. Could they not update XP/Win2K to at least be
aware of them, and avoid clobbering them?
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
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[Richard G. Harper]

Nope.

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[Rock]

MS is going to have all manner of problems with XP unaware of the new
Vista boot manager. Could they not update XP/Win2K to at least be
aware of them, and avoid clobbering them?
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

Many folks are dual booting and have been since Vista was released. Avoid
clobbering what? No matter the boot loader used, dual booting by whatever
means has to be set up properly.

If you want to make a suggestion to MS use this: mswish.microsoft.com

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Dual booters are a very small minority, and the majority of them use a third
party bootloader rather than rely on the ones supplied by the OS. Microsoft
doesn't see this as a problem as their OS's are not designed for multiboot
configurations.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[don't look]

What 3rd party disk manager works with Vista and W2k?

 

[Rock]

What 3rd party disk manager works with Vista and W2k?

BootIt NG and Acronis Disk Director Suite both work with Vista. Check on
their web sites to see if they are also compatible with Win2k.

 

[Rick Rogers]

They both are.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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[don't look]

BootIt NG and Acronis Disk Director Suite both work with Vista. Check on
their web sites to see if they are also compatible with Win2k.

Thanks

 

[Rock]

Thanks

You're welcome.

 

[Roedy Green]

I have spent many hours the past few days with both Acronis and BootIt
NG on Win2K, XP and Vista.

I could not, despite a lot of help from Acronis, get it to work on
Vista. It simply could not see my partitions as bootable.

Boot-It is more pedestrian, but it worked.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/bootmanager.html
for my notes.

Acronis has not given up, even though my trial has expired. They wrote
this morning asking me to hang in there.
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com