{"id":144,"date":"2004-08-20T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-enable-the-swap-option-in-bootit-ng\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T23:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:14:57","slug":"how-to-enable-the-swap-option-in-bootit-ng","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-enable-the-swap-option-in-bootit-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable the Swap Option in BootIt NG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BootIt NG offers a feature which can logically swap the boot drive to make it appear to the system as the first hard drive (i.e. HD0). This feature can be helpful under certain circumstances, such as when booting DOS from a non-HD0 drive. This article will explain how to enable the swap option when creating or editing boot menu items.<\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>Boot into BootIt NG. When the <strong>Boot Menu<\/strong> appears, click the <strong>Maintenance<\/strong> button. (<strong>Note:<\/strong> If the IT Mode option is enabled, you will need to hold down the <strong>Insert<\/strong> or <strong>right Ctrl<\/strong> key to access BootIt NG.) <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>On the BootIt NG desktop, click <strong>Boot Edit<\/strong>. The<strong> Boot Menu<\/strong> dialog appears. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>At this point, you have a choice: <br \/><br \/>\r\n      <ul type=\"disc\">\r\n        <li>If you wish to add a new boot menu item and enable the swap option for it, click the <strong>Add<\/strong> button. The <strong>Add Menu Item <\/strong>dialog appears. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n        <li>If there is a preexisting boot menu item for which you wish to enable the swap option, select it and click the <strong>Edit<\/strong> button. The <strong>Edit Menu Item<\/strong> dialog appears. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n    <\/li>\r\n    <li>On the<strong> Add Menu Item<\/strong> or <strong>Edit Menu Item<\/strong> dialog, select the <strong>Swap<\/strong> option under the <strong>Boot Details<\/strong> section <em>if you want the swap option to be permanent<\/em>, or under the <strong>One Time Option<\/strong> section <em>if you want the swap option to be used <u>only<\/u> the next time the boot item is used<\/em>. <br \/><br \/>\r\n      <ul type=\"disc\">\r\n        <li>If you are adding a new boot menu item, you will also need to configure the appropriate boot item parameters.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n    <\/li>\r\n    <li>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> on the <strong>Add Menu Item<\/strong> or<strong> Edit Menu Item<\/strong> dialog. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> on the<strong> Boot Menu<\/strong> dialog to return to the BootIt NG desktop and save the changes, or click <strong>Cancel<\/strong> to return to the BootIt NG desktop without saving any changes. <\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BootIt NG offers a feature which can logically swap the boot drive to make it appear to the system as the first hard drive (i.e. HD0). This feature can be helpful under certain circumstances, such as when booting DOS from a non-HD0 drive. This article will explain how to enable the swap option when creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1804],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2118],"class_list":["post-144","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-general-information-bing-archive","lsvr_kba_tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/144\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}