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I use a product called "BootIt" originating from "Terabyte Unlimited":
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

The current version is "BootIt Bare Metal" (BIBM), but the version that I have is the previous one called "BootIt Next Generation" (BING). Neither is free (although BING was "try before you buy" when I first used it some years ago; it was a 4 week trial period before deciding whether to purchase or uninstall).

BING is quite "DOS like"; BIBM may be better (I have not used it). My OS disk is a 160GB former-laptop disk which I have partitioned into three 50GB partitions for use as OS partitions, plus a small DOS partition containing some Dell test tools. When you power-on your system, BootIt displays a menu of the partitions that you can boot. You select the one you want and press the ENTER key (I think that a mouse click works too), and BootIt boots the partition selected. BootIt also does partition copying, moving, resizing, creation, deletion, and backup to USB disk (so I use it for creating system images too).

-- from CyberSimian in the UK

<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1156866" data-attributes="member: 141969">I use a product called &quot;BootIt&quot; originating from &quot;Terabyte Unlimited&quot;:<a href="http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm</a>The current version is &quot;BootIt Bare Metal&quot; (BIBM), but the version that I have is the previous one called &quot;BootIt Next Generation&quot; (BING).&nbsp; Neither is free (although BING was &quot;try before you buy&quot; when I first used it some years ago; it was a 4 week trial period before deciding whether to purchase or uninstall).BING is quite &quot;DOS like&quot;; BIBM may be better (I have not used it).&nbsp; My OS disk is a 160GB former-laptop disk which I have partitioned into three 50GB partitions for use as OS partitions, plus a small DOS partition containing some Dell test tools.&nbsp; When you power-on your system, BootIt displays a menu of the partitions that you can boot.&nbsp; You select the one you want and press the ENTER key (I think that a mouse click works too), and BootIt boots the partition selected.&nbsp; BootIt also does partition copying, moving, resizing, creation, deletion, and backup to USB disk (so I use it for creating system images too).-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1156866, member: 141969"] I use a product called "BootIt" originating from "Terabyte Unlimited": [URL]http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm[/URL] The current version is "BootIt Bare Metal" (BIBM), but the version that I have is the previous one called "BootIt Next Generation" (BING). Neither is free (although BING was "try before you buy" when I first used it some years ago; it was a 4 week trial period before deciding whether to purchase or uninstall). BING is quite "DOS like"; BIBM may be better (I have not used it). My OS disk is a 160GB former-laptop disk which I have partitioned into three 50GB partitions for use as OS partitions, plus a small DOS partition containing some Dell test tools. When you power-on your system, BootIt displays a menu of the partitions that you can boot. You select the one you want and press the ENTER key (I think that a mouse click works too), and BootIt boots the partition selected. BootIt also does partition copying, moving, resizing, creation, deletion, and backup to USB disk (so I use it for creating system images too). -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]