Boot-US

Overview

Boot-US is an universal boot manager. It allows you to use easily all your existing operating systems completely independent of each other. The boot manager can be comfortably installed directly under Windows.

 

Functions

The package Boot-US consists of an universal boot manager and the accompanying configuration program for the boot manager. The latter is available as a GUI version for all WIN32/64 variants (95/98/ME/NT/200/XP/Vista/2008/7/8/10) and as command-line version for DOS and all WIN32/64 variants. Additionally Boot-US allows to view details of all existing partitions. 

 

The main functions of Boot-US are:

•Boot-US is compatible with existing standards

•Configuration program executes directly under any 32 bit and 64 bit Windows variant (Windows 95 to Windows 10)

•Boot manager allows booting of all operating systems

•Boot manager allows booting from all local hard disks and diskette

•Installation of boot manager in MBR or primary partition or diskette

•Support for hard disks up to 2048 GB (2 TB)

•Allows booting beyond the 8 GB limit (e.g. Windows ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/10, Linux, ...)

•Partitions can be created, deleted, activated and hid

•Password protection for boot manager and configuration program

•Explicit support for booting DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/10 from 2nd, 3rd, ... disk

•Support for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/10 (with Boot-US 1.2.4 and higher)

•Individual hiding of primary and logical partitions (with Boot-US 1.7.0)

•True hiding of partitions especially for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/10 (with Boot-US 1.5.0)

•Order of boot disks can be specified (with Boot-US 1.6.0)

•Integrity check of partitions (with Boot-US 1.6.1)

•Command-line and GUI version now offer same functionality (with Boot-US 1.7.0)

•Partitions can be created, deleted and formated with FAT/FAT32 (with Boot-US 2.1.0)

 

Operating systems

The following list is an (incomplete) overview about the operating systems which can be successfully booted by Boot-US:

•Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/10 (32 bit and 64 bit)

•Windows 95/98/ME

•MS-DOS (several versions)

•Novell-DOS 7.0 (DR-DOS)

•Free DOS

•Linux

•Free BSD/Open BSD

•Oberon

•BeOS

•VMware

•QNX Realtime Platform

•...