BootIt NG

[teentitans14]

I've tryed BootIt NG to have 2 operating systems on 1 harddrive(Win ME/Win XP). It seems to work pretty good. Any other programs that are better for Dual booting than BootIt?

[firefoxthebomb]

have you tried partition magic, I think it comes with boot magic.

[teentitans14]

No, I haven't tryed that one. Is it pretty simple to use?

[jaclaz]

The BEST free one is XOSL:

http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm

(graphical)

You might want/need also:

Ranish's Partition Manager:

http://www.ranish.com/part/

BOOTPART:

http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

and

Windows Boot.ini C.U.

http://www.dx21.com/SOFTWARE/Dx21/ViewItem...I=2&SI=2&OID=14

or

editbini (from the same people who made BootIt NG):

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html

Please note that the simplest way to dual boot XP and ME (just read it as NT and 98) is to use the XP default boot manager and BOOTPART. (this way nothing is messed up on the Hard Disk).

If you want to add a stunning beautiful graphical screen and password protect booting, add XOSL.

jaclaz

[Martin Zugec]

XOSL was great, but the development stopped

Personally I use boot.ini ))

[jaclaz]

XOSL was great, but the development stopped

Yep, but if it works, doing well what it is supposed to do, what is the need to develop?

Personally I use boot.ini

Yep, it is what i mentioned as "the simplest way"

jaclaz

[teentitans14]

The reason I like BootIt NG is because it alows you to resize partitions without data loss. And it also has it's own fdisk and format.

Thanks for the replies. I'll give some of the other programs a try.

[prathapml]

PartitionMagic and Acronis also have the features BootIT-NG has - in fact, more features than BOOTIT.

[teentitans14]

Which is the easiest to install and use?

[prathapml]

Acronis is easiest to use and has max features. (the fact that both partitionmagic and disk-director need a key to install, makes me say they are not very easy to install)

[teentitans14]

Exactly which Acronis program are you referring to?

[prathapml]

Disk Director Suite 9, to be specific.