Pre-Boot Software
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Boot Managers
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GAG
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GAG 4.9 (download URL #1),
GAG 4.9 (download URL #2),
GAG Español Zip: Instructions translated to Spanish,
GAG Español Zip: Additional download mirrors,
Local directory (with renamed files)
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XFdisk (eXtended FDisk)
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XFdisk 0.9.3 Beta EN,
XFDisk 0.9.3 Source Code
(by the later developer, Ulrich Müller),
XFDisk 0.9.3 source code (renamed from xfd_325.zip),
XFDisk 0.7.0 beta's source code
(version by original author Florian Painke),
Wayback machine's copy of
XFdisk logo.
Also the main XFdisk page distributed:
xfd093de.zip (Deutsch, German)
xfd093nl.zip (Nederlands, Netherlands)
http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/files/bp7crt.zip (needed for the partition
manager to work on faster computer)
(I have made arcxfd.htm from
Wayback machien copy of XFdisk
home page
(Wayback machine version of German version of page)
I also have the foreign language versions in
TOOGAM's XFdisk directory, which were
obtained from
http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/files/. while they were
avialable there.
(The history_en.txt file from that site is the same as the
HISTORY.TXT file in xfd093en.zip.)
(For more information about the Borland/Turbo Pascal issue,
official statement,
Fix for
"Runtime Error 200" bug of Borland Turbo Pascal 7 on fast PCs
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Ranish
Partition Manager
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Ranish Paritition Manager 2.44 Beta-Beta-Beta,
Ranish Partition Manager 2.37 (runs on 8086),
Ranish Partition Manager 2.40
(version labeled "stable", by Mikhail Ranish),
Ranish Parition Manager 2.43 by Muthu
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GRUB
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Windows NT boot manager
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I am not aware of this being a free download.
Q157992:
How to Triple Boot to Windows NT, Windows 95/98, and
MS-DOS. It involves saving the desired boot sector
to a file and having boot.ini refer to the file.
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Partition Modifiers
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FDisk (Fixed Disk)
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FDisk programs w/ boot managers
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XFdisk, listed on the
boot managers section of this page, contains
boot manager that is installable in DOS.
Ranish Partition Manager
also has a boot manager. These files are in the
Boot Managers section (earlier on this page).
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Free FDISK: The official FDISK of FreeDOS
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Free
FDisk 1.3.0 Beta/Debug
FDisk 1.3.0 (source),
Free FDisk 1.2.1
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Microsoft's FDisk
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Q263044
(English)
(renamed locally to 263044u8.exe)
to make disks bigger than 64MB work as long as
they are also not larger than 137GB (LBA48).
Large disks may cause severe cosmetic issues
(where data overflows one field and causes
later fields to have extra text, causing major
alignment issues with what is displayed on the
screen). (This Windows executable can be
viewed using 7-Zip for Windows.)
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Other partition modifiers
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Partition
Resizer 1.3.4 requires DOS/Win9x, 8086+, and
a hard drive less than 2TB in size. Freeware.
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MDGX softare for disk
partitioning, formatting, etc.
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MS FAT32 Evaluation Tool for OSR 2.x, 98(SE), Me,
and shows drive/partition sizes, specs, and the amount of space that would be
freed if FAT16 is converted to FAT32.
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Undelete
Plus (v2.9 32-bit local as undelpls.exe) for Win9x/NT4/2K/ME/XP/2003/Vista
for FAT12/16/32 and NTFS/NTFS5: Freeware.
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TestDisk,
a recovery tool to locate partitions. License
is GPL.
DOS release 6.7,
Source,
Win NT/2k/XP+, Linux/Lunux RPM/Linux SRPM, Mac
OSX, and unofficially for OS/2.
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Hard drive imaging software
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Ghost, etc.