by ohaya » Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:50 pm
AlanD wrote:
> On 2017-10-27 10:56 AM, MJNelson wrote:
> > When I tried to access a Win 7 x64 partition with NG to repartition
> > size, it could not recognize it. I used Win 7 itself since it can resize
> > it's own partition.
> >
> > BIBM can do it as well.
> > Mary
> >
> > On 10/26/2017 8:44 PM, AlanD wrote:
> >> Is BootitNG still useful, or does it have serious shortcomings when
> used
> >> strictly as a partition manager with WIN 10?
> >>
> >> AlanD
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> Reason for question is that I own a copy of BING, which was used to set
> up and control boot options between Windows 7 and XP.
>
> It worked fine for that purpose, but now I have built a new computer on
> which I will install WIN 10, but would like to also install my WIN 7
> installation in a second partition, so a boot manager would again be
> helpful.
>
> AlanD
If you want to use BING with newer computers, you will have to switch the BIOS to non-UEFI mode and also disable "secure boot". Then you have to non-GPT partitions.
Some may argue against that, but to me that (using non-UEFI, disabling secure boot, and using non-GPT partitions) is all ok, I still do that with ALL the new machines that I use BING on, and even on the newer machines where I have started migrating to using BIBM on.