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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (2726)	10/6/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) of 14778

or you can use bootmanager and not worry about and have more flexilibty all at the same time. You ought to read up on it before you dismiss it. I do not think we are talking about the same thing. A boot manager is resident on the harddrive. If the harddrive fails so does the boot manager. Is that correct or am I misunderstanding how a boot manager works? I am not arguing against boot managers. Boot managers are great for their intended use. A bios select option is independent of the harddrive. If the first harddrive fails the bios select option still works. ZP, your absolutely right here. I wasn't considering the primary HD failure so you do need your BIOS boot ability for those circumstances. for all other normal circumstances the Boot manager will suffice and make switching much easier. A boot manager is used to choose between different operating systems. Do you agree? A KOT drive is used in the event of a drive failure or a software configuration bust. I see it as apples and oranges. Not Exactly. A Boot maanger is used to boot different partitions primary or extended, dos or non dos that exist on any physical drive in your system. It will automatically unhide and boot a primary parition and re-hide it if a different partition is selected at next bootup and will handle DOS, NTFS, HPFS etc. All this really has nothing to do with multiple OS's. The only drawback as you point on is if your primary fails. But the 99% of time this is not the case and for making and restoring images of drives you will find this a far easier and robust approach and then use BIOS boot when all else fails. What I am describing would compliment very well what you are trying to acheive. Sean

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