Partition Boot Manager 1

Partition Boot Manager 1.08 (PBM) Manual

SA Development

http://www.sadevelopment.com

Manual Revised 12/9/2007

Table of Contents

Important Information (Do NOT skip this section) 3

How does PBM work? 3

Unsafe Partition Changes 3

Safe Partition Changes 3

Introduction 4

Partition Boot Manager (PBM) Introduction 4

PBM Features 4

Common uses for PBM 4

Installing PBM 5

Installing PBM on a system with existing partitions that need to be kept 5

Installing PBM on a system with no partitions or partitions that can be deleted 7

Installing Operating Systems 8

Recommendations 8

Older FDISK Warning 8

How Drive Letters are Assigned 8

Int13 Extension Support 9

Operating System Installation Notes 10

Generic Operating System Installation Instructions 10

DOS and Windows 3.1 10

Windows 95 11

Windows 98 12

Windows Millennium Edition 12

Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 13

Troubleshooting Operating Systems 18

Startup Environment 18

Updating Boot Sectors 19

PBM Concepts 20

Independent Operating Systems 20

Two-way Partition Maintenance 20

Shared Partitions 22

Partition Creation 22

Partition Modification 23

File System Support 23

Master Boot Record Support 24

Maintenance Partitions 24

Setting up a Maintenance Partition 25

Security 26