hi Wonko,
good to see you replying, especially with a worthwhile link
looks like there were a few viewers but only you respond, so thanks
I'm a multibooter too, and have gotten some good ideas from the Multibooters UK site in the past,
have not fully explored it and never saw his vista write up, looks good,
and same basic technique I used
I was thinking a pure microsoft floppy would be one of my approaches for Korun and his bootmgr problem to
run his VHD regardless of mangled bootrecords on his USB HDD
I also have used a plop floppy and it is great for about the same thing (and more) without changing the HDD either
within the plop zipfile is a 1.44mb floppy image that rocks
I know you are an alternative booter from way back,
and a W81 boot floppy is really not that remarkable
since its just a floppy after all
I always keep the real floppy hardware handy, still having a FDD on every desktop
and a USB model for shared laptop use
what I have been making for NT6 is a multibooting floppy
to start a dual (at least) booting PC having XP & W81 as well as DOS stored on the floppy itself
mainly something old under the sun, especially DOS
Do you ever use DMDE disk editor?
that is what I like now to handle the bootsector backups and replacements,
it is very worthwhile, has DOS, Linux, and Windows versions
so my NT6 bootfloppy technique would be probably more useful as an introductory exercise for new multibooters
while introducing them to DMDE and BCDediting for latest Windows
and only risking a floppy instead of a HDD
plus for youngsters maybe their first whack at DOS and floppies both
I don't know if it is a useful enough effort myself, since I added NT6 (during vista days, it gagged me too)
to the established NT5/DOS dual boot floppy it has no longer been universal
and tied to the mother NT6 PC without more difficult BCDediting like the NT5 floppy was not
ztron