{"id":427,"date":"2007-05-09T17:54:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2007\/easybcd-16-released\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T17:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T22:44:02","slug":"easybcd-16-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/easybcd-16-released\/","title":{"rendered":"EasyBCD 1.6 Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"colorbox-427\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ImageCache\/softpedia.com\/base_img\/spick_windows.gif\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while, though we haven&#8217;t really noticed. The EasyBCD 1.5x line has worked loyally and without complaint for the past 7 months, and it&#8217;s time to put it to rest. It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s been almost&nbsp;8 months now since EasyBCD 1.5 went gold in October of 2006 &#8211; and since then its popularity has just soared beyond all expectations.\n<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re proud to announce <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyBCD\/\" rel=\"follow\">the availability of EasyBCD 1.6<\/a> to the general public. It&#8217;s been a rough, long road developing the 1.6 line, but we hope you&#8217;ll find it worth the wait. With 1 million+ EasyBCD users strong, we&#8217;ve learned a thing or two about compatibility and standards &#8211; or rather shall we say the <em>lack<\/em> of them. What worked for 98% of EasyBCD users didn&#8217;t work for the remaining two percent, and NeoSmart Technologies doesn&#8217;t accept anything less than perfection &#8211; that&#8217;s why EasyBCD 1.6 goes the extra mile.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With EasyBCD 1.6, we&#8217;ve rewritten <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/gallery\/photo\/view\/neosmart\/EasyBCD\/1_60\/Adding+Linux\/o\/\" rel=\"follow\">Linux\/BSD support<\/a> <em>yet again<\/em> (for the 3rd time if you&#8217;re keeping record), this time with&nbsp;a <strong>treble redundancy system<\/strong> intended to &#8211; hopefully &#8211; serve 100% of the world&#8217;s dual-booters without pain, hitch, or effort. Yes, we really are that serious about our users. On that same front, we&#8217;ve built in diagnostic failsafes for OS X and Windows support. Now users that find their systems unable to <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/gallery\/photo\/view\/neosmart\/EasyBCD\/1_60\/Adding+OS+X\/o\/\" rel=\"follow\">boot into OS X<\/a> (HFS+ Partition Error anyone?) <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/gallery\/photo\/view\/neosmart\/EasyBCD\/1_60\/Manage+Entries\/o\/\" rel=\"follow\">or Windows<\/a> (corrupted BCD, overwritten MBR, missing bootfiles, the list goes on and on!) have one-click recovery options in <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/gallery\/photo\/view\/neosmart\/EasyBCD\/1_60\/Diagnostics+Center\/o\/\" rel=\"follow\">the Diagnostics Center<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyBCD\/\" rel=\"follow\">official changelog<\/a>&nbsp;is miles long and has more detail than even we care to look into, but here are some of the new features we&#8217;re especially excited about:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rewritten Linux Support <\/li>\n<li>Diagnostics and Repair Center <\/li>\n<li>Rewritten Memory Management <\/li>\n<li>New Exception Handler Class (you can tell us <em>exactly<\/em> what went wrong!) <\/li>\n<li>Listing drives by letter and physical partitions &#8211; no more guessing which numbers to use. <\/li>\n<li>BCD Recovery and Repair <\/li>\n<li>New MBR and Bootsector layers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on and on, but you don&#8217;t have to sit here and read &#8211; go and grab the latest version of EasyBCD now!\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"save\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyBCD\/\" rel=\"follow\">Download EasyBCD 1.6<\/a>!!!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/gallery\/album\/view\/neosmart\/EasyBCD\/1_60\/\" rel=\"follow\">screenshots<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyBCD\/\" rel=\"follow\">changelog<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/forums\/\" rel=\"follow\">support<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/\" rel=\"follow\">documentation<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/Donate\/\" rel=\"follow\">donate<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p>EasyBCD 1.6 wouldn&#8217;t have ever been possible if it wasn&#8217;t for the help of the community. NeoSmart Technologies is a member-driven non-profit organization, we exist only to serve, and we only exist because each and every one of you is willing to help; be it by <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/Donate\/\" rel=\"follow\">donating<\/a>, testing, or providing input. We&#8217;d like to thank certain people though who have really came through for us with EasyBCD 1.6:\n<\/p>\n<p>First, thanks to Srivatsa Srinath&nbsp;and Desmond Lee of Microsoft Corporation for their valuable information regarding the inner-workings of the BCD, without their help, the diagnostics section would have never happened. Thanks to deVilhoOD for the help on fixing the HFS+ Partition Error with Mac OS X. Finally, special thanks to Jernej Jenko for sticking through while we bombarded his email with various testing scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, though we haven&#8217;t really noticed. The EasyBCD 1.5x line has worked loyally and without complaint for the past 7 months, and it&#8217;s time to put it to rest. It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s been almost&nbsp;8 months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/easybcd-16-released\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[367,334,119,115,357,350,355,53],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-download","tag-dual-boot","tag-easybcd","tag-longhorn","tag-macintosh","tag-os-x","tag-software-center","tag-vista"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-6T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}