There’s a section of the EasyBCD documentation/user manual/wiki that contains more than just information on how to use the program. If you’ve corrupted your bootloader, run into one or more bootmgr-related errors, installed Windows XP or Linux after installing Vista, or otherwise managed to fry, crack, melt, or break the Vista bootloader, then here’s how [...]
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EasyBCD 1.7 Released & Up for Download!
Published by September 5th, 2007 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software 11 CommentsGo and grab yourself a fresh, hot, right-out-of-the-compiler copy of EasyBCD 1.7 before your old bootloader realizes what hit it! Another release of EasyBCD is now available after months of beta testing and – in true NeoSmart fashion - brings dozens of new features and innovative ideas to the table; this time with even more versatility than [...]
Bootsect.exe Modifies the Bootsector Not the MBR!!
Published by August 6th, 2007 in Software, Windows 24 CommentsWe’ve noticed a lot of people posting questions both in our support forums and in the Windows Vista newsgroups having issues getting bootsect.exe to do their bidding. Bootsect.exe is a command-line utility that ships on the Windows Vista DVD intended to repair a non-booting Windows Vista install – except it doesn’t always seem to work.
The problem that most people [...]
iReboot 1.0 Released
Published by August 3rd, 2007 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software, Windows 4 CommentsNeoSmart Technologies is proud to announce the release of iReboot 1.0 – our first “helper app” for EasyBCD. iReboot is a minimalistic (taking up only 400KB of memory!) taskbar utility that lets you intelligently choose which operating system you’d like to reboot into.
iReboot interfaces with the Vista BCD (so the Vista bootloader is a requirement) [...]
How to: Install the Vista Bootloader on Windows XP
Published by August 3rd, 2007 in Guides, Software, Windows 27 CommentsEver since Windows Vista came out, a lot of hype has been going around the new bootloader. That’s the hype that drove us to create EasyBCD, and that’s the same hype that’s been driving people to ask all around the web: “Is it possible to install the new Windows Vista bootloader on a non-Vista machine? [...]
