Boot Manager and on the fly boot partition switching.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

BootIt Next Generation and its companion program BootNow may fit your bill.

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

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
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"Glenn" <glenn.mantle@bt.com> wrote in message news:1122329276.034915.320390@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I am looking a providing a windows xp disk based recovery solution
> which uses a boot manager to boot into a small footprint o/s
> ( DOS,Linux,Recovery Console ....haven't decided yet) do a 5 second
> sanity check on the window partition (windows partition is intact,
> system files are present.) if okay tell the bootmanager to boot to
> windows partion and restart if bad tell boot manager to boot to hidden
> recovery partition and restart.
>
> Does anyone know of any boot managers that let me chnage the boot
> partition on the fly like this?
>