Re: La Machine Est Morte, Vive La Machine!

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

I guess I'm very non-current on this, but I thought you had become a Mac convert, Harry ?  An experiment that did not pan out, so you have rejoined the Windows fold ?

Besides the native partitioning tools, it sounds like you are also using the Win loader to mediate your boot-up choices.  Although I've been using it less and less in recent years, I may be unable to avoid having dual-boot (with eCS being the alternate boot option), on at least one machine.  And Win 7 plays FAR LESS WELL with alternate OSes than previous versions of Win.  Finding a reliable and robust boot mediator has also been a
 problem.  The Win Boot Loader seems to go bad on me after some point, leaving just one of the choices bootable.  The affected partition and its contents are still there, just inert and unusable.  This has now happened on two machines of mine.  In one case it was Windows that did the vanishing act, in the other eCS.  The Air-Boot presently used by eCS is fragile and unreliable.  I've been warned off of Acronis OS Selector -- by Kari, I think.  What else is there that could fit the bill ?  Or will this just continue to be rolling the dice with hand grenades, thanks to Win 7 ?


   Jordan

 
 
 
 
  From: Harry Binswanger 
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 9:29 PM
 Subject: RE: La Machine Est Morte, Vive La Machine!
  
 

3. I didn't do anything special to make the partitions, so I guess
I'm using the Windows way of doing that, and I have no issues at
all with it. But maybe that's because I don't know of anything
better. Well, there's one really minor annoyance: in the white on
black screen that appears on bootup, both OS's have exactly the
same name; only the position on the list differentiates 32bit Win7
from 64bit Win7 on that screen.