BootSave 2.8 build: 9470 released: 2009-08-20

Restores corrupted CMOS from backup.

Copyright: (c) 2012 Canadian Mind Products.

asm command line utility.
Download from: http://mindprod.com/products4.html#BOOTSAVE

===> Free <===
Full source included.
You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified
in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute.
May be used freely for any purpose but military.
For more details on this restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications,
your app too must be labeled non-military use only.
All ASM source and EXE files code are included.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under Microsoft Windows or DOS only (e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista) in a DOS compatibility box).

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Installing on a PC:

Download source and executable files to run on your own machine as a standalone utility.
To install, extract the zip download with WinZip
(or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please,
often J:\ --  ticking off the "use folder names" option.

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Installing on a MacIntosh:

This assembler program will not run on a Mac.

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Rebuilding:

The zip already contains the necessary exe, so unless you modify
the program, there is no need to recompile the source or re-assemble it..
Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are and tweak rebuild.xml.
Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to reassemble and link.

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Use:

BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector on the
hard disk. Suite of three utilities BootSave, BootRest and
BootChk. Protects against damage to the partition table or
boot sector done by rogue programs, viruses or accidents
with tools like Norton NU.

This is not a utility for the naive user. It is intended for
computer professionals to protect the disks of their
clients.

The BootSave suite will work under DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows
95/98/ME, OS/2, but not NT, Windows 2000, XP or Vista. These
utilities  are intended to be used mainly within
autoexec.bat during the DOS phase of the boot.

This version does NOT save the boot sectors for each
partition.

You must use BootSave PRIOR to damaging your hard disk to be
of any use!

Win2K, XP, Vista and Windows 7 block BootSave.  You must boot to DOS to
use it.  You can acquire a bootable floppy by digging in your old DOS
diskettes, asking an old timer for one, or you can right click Format and
select "bootable DOS disk".  In theory it is possible to use memory
sticks, thumbdrives, CDs and DVDs too, but I have never tried it.

Some BIOSes block BootSave even when you are running DOS.  You must turn 
of the boot block lock in BIOS temporarily.  

Why the umbrella icon? It represents protection on a rainy
day when your boot sector has been corrupted.


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Version History:

 1.0 1990-11-19 released to BIX

 1.1 1991-09-23 released to BIX
                simpler use, parallels CMOSSave

 1.2 1991-09-24 ypassed to keep in sync with CMOSSAVE

 1.3 1991-09-25 change status to shareware
                banner changes
                error message beeps

 1.4 1993-06-01 new phone number and address

 1.5 1995-08-08 /Q option
                cleaner CHKBOOT.BAT
                configure with SET CMPDIR= to say where utils and *.SAV files kept.

 1.6 1996-10-23 Quadra address
                presume C:\SAFE again for files.

 1.7 1996-11-15 lower cost, combo site licence.

 1.8 1996-11-22 missing com files corrected

 1.9 1998-11-07 new mailing address and website.

 2.0 2001-01-08 simpler bat files.

 2.1 2002-01-15 simpler bat files.

 2.5 2008-01-02 add XML pad, icon

 2.6 2009-03-12 add ANT build script.
                refactor into three separate programs with common includes.

 2.7 2009-08-12 insert missing parse calls into bootchk and bootrest lost during reorg

 2.8 2009-08-20 refactor

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