MultiBoot Options (Windows)
Setup bootloader (i.e. GRUB) using Windows OS.
Safely dual boot Windows and Linux without touching the Windows MBR.
Grub2Win installs to Windows 8, Windows 7, XP, 2000 or Vista. It boots native, open source GNU grub version 2.00 code. Everything is contained in one 7 MB directory on your Windows C: drive.
The simple Windows GUI and instructions will help you get Grub booting quickly and safely. Messages and help can be displayed in your native language.
You can select from a nearly unlimited number of OS choices at boot time. Samples for Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Mint, Free BSD and Windows are included.
Grub2Win comes with several graphic themes that include boot time animation and scroll bar OS selection.
EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader. With EasyBCD, almost anything is possible, e.g. to boot a Win7-VHD-image. Setting up and configuring Windows boot entries is simple, and there is no easier way to quickly boot right into Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD straight from the Windows Vista bootloader - on the fly, no expert knowledge needed!
EasyBCD is geared for users of all kinds. Whether you just want to add an entry to your old XP partition or want to create a duplicate for testing purposes; if youre interested in debugging the Windows Kernel or septuple-booting your seven test operating systems, EasyBCD is the key.
"UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. Some of the tools inlcuded are "free for personal use" copies so users need to respect these licenses. A few of the tools included in UBCD4Win are paid for and licensed software owned by UBCD4win. On occasion we work with software companies/authors for permission to include their software in our download or have requested their software better support PE. Users can freely share copies of UBCD4Win with friends but selling UBCD4Win for a profit is not acceptable. We have worked hard for many years helping people for free with this project, others should not make money from our hard work. UBCD4Win is based on Barts PE©. Barts PE© builds a Windows® "pre-install" environment CD, basically a simple Windows® XP booted from CD. UBCD4Win includes network support and allows you the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc. Our download includes almost everything you need to repair your system problems. This project has been put together to be the ultimate recovery cd and not a replacement OS (Operating System)" By ubcd4win.com
rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up, as shown below. rEFInd is not a boot loader, which is a program that loads an OS kernel and hands off control to it.
I decided to fork the earlier rEFIt project because, although rEFIt is a useful program, it's got several important limitations, such as poor control over the boot loader detection process and an ability to display at most a handful of boot loader entries on its main screen. rEFIt's author, Christoph Pfisterer, didn't respond to my e-mails, and the latest official version of rEFIt, 0.14, was released in March of 2010. Thus, it appears that rEFIt has been abandoned. Forking the project to give rEFIt new features seemed like the thing to do.
Bootice - utility to modify or backup/restore your MBR (Master Boot Record) or PBR (Partition Boot Record).
With Bootice, you can easily change your MBR/PBR to another type. Supported boot records are: Grub4DOS, SysLinux, PLoP Boot Manager, MS NT52/60, .... For example, with this utility, you can install Grub4DOS to your MBR or PBR, install NTLDR or BOOTMGR to your PBR, install SYSLINUX to PBR, install the MS-DOS boot record to your PBR, and so on.
It also has the ability to re-partition and format your flash disk drive. You can even seperate your flash disk to 2 partitions (only 1 is accessible in Windows, the other one is hidden for private data or boot images). And another useful function is to backup or restore your MBR/PBR of your disk.
Note: Hiren's Boot CD contains the program.
This is EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers created as a replacement to EDK2/Duet bootloader.
Features using UEFI BIOS or own CloverEFI can boot Windows UEFI on real Mac and on old PC customizable GUI: themes support, own icons, fonts, background image, animated pictures, mouse pointers. theme database
See also https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ (old repo, still updated, with screenshots) F1 - multilingual help, depending on language in config saving preboot.log from GUI by typing F2 and system.log for debug save original (OEM) ACPI tables by pressing F4 test DSDT patching with F5 save videoBIOS into EFI/misc by pressing F6 saving screenshots from GUI typing F10 CD/DVD eject by F12 and refresh menu after CD insertion change GUI resolution by PgUp/PgDown save BOOT0000 option to NVRAM (like bcfg in Shell) default boot after timeout into previous chosen OS call to Shell.efi native screen resolution in GUI scroll bar if screen resolution is too low for menu
