Support for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008
Starting with version 1.2.4 Boot-US supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008. In order to install
under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 the boot manager Boot-US you must use the version
Boot-US 1.2.4 or higher.
If you install under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 the boot manager using Boot-US 1.2.3 (or earlier) you may
suffer serious data loss!
Techn. background:
Microsoft has changed in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 the WIN32 function for accessing the hard disk.
If the disk is accessed by the old functions (of Boot-US 1.2.3),
the access should be denied always and an error should be returned. Unfortunately
this error checking does not work reliably in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008.
Under certain circumstances Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 does allow the disk access with
the "old" functions calls. Write access with the old function calls seems
to work, i.e. no error is returned. In reality, however, incorrect data is written
to the disk resulting in the mentioned data loss.
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