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Skriven 2005-03-10 21:32:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GERALD MILLER
Ärende: I've had it!
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Hello Gerald - 

GM> re: BootitNG 

CA>>>>>> In all fairness to you, or anyone else reading this,
CA>>>>>> BootitNG's documentation is a bit cryptic and the user
CA>>>>>> interface could be sorted out a bit better than it is.
CA>>>>>> Many people have made this same observation but it is
CA>>>>>> 'mouseable' and does work as advertised just takes a
CA>>>>>> little time getting accustomed to the 'procedures' and
CA>>>>>> terminology (icons, menus, etc.). It's worth the
CA>>>>>> effort but I won't tell anyone it's going to be easy
CA>>>>>> to understand if you've never used it 

CA>>>>> > before. 

GM>>>>> Well, not having the software to 'work with', I can't
GM>>>>> say what the documentation is like. I did find: 

GM>>>>> http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/ 

GM>>>>> if you want to check it out and see if its workings are
GM>>>>> any more precise. Let me know if the site is any more
GM>>>>> detailed than what the documentation is, please, and if
GM>>>>> it is, then I will make sure that I get a hard copy for
GM>>>>> when I can afford BootItNG. 

CA>>>> Will check that URL this evening. 

GM>>> And, your opinion is? 

CA>> Reads like it was written by a journalist. Moves a bit too
CA>> fast with not enough information about each function. I
CA>> can follow it but I've used BootitNG for some time now
CA>> (years?) and the screens and terminology used by Terrabyte
CA>> are familiar to me. 

GM> Too bad about the journalist. Would you create something on
GM> your website? 

I've consider doing that but the 'trend' is to purchase 'name'
software like Ghost even though most of them are begining to
have compatibility problems and cost twice the price. 

I wouldn't earn even one pesos for my time/effort and I'm
begining to become jealous of how my time is spent. 

GM> Okay, I was at the Terrabyte site. BootIt Next Generation
GM> when purchased with Image for Windows (includes Image for
GM> DOS) is priced at $49.54USD ($59.79CAD). Now, is Terrabyte
GM> shipping a CD with these programs or is that for an
GM> e-mailed license and you have to download the programs? 

Last time I checked you download the software and get a
'license' key for payment for same. 

GM> Also, which program creates the Windows ISO image files?
GM> BING? Image for Windows? Both? 

The website is a bit confusing isn't it? The docs for BootitNG
are confusing in much the same ways. :-) 

BooitNG will do almost everything by itself. There is a free
download of a program to read/restore individual files from a
BootitNG image file but I seldom need to do that here even
though I do have it and did make sure it worked as advertised.
:-) 

Image for Windows uses a windows GUI interface to create the
same image files BootitNG creates but also requires the 'lock'
(free) software Terrabyte offers to lock Windows while the
image is being written. IFW is a bit less expensive but won't
do the multiboot, partitioning, etc. that BootitNG can do. I
see no reason to not get the full magilla myself and have no
use for IFW here now that I have BootitNG installed. :-) 

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