BootSave 2.9 build: 9639 released: 2012-11-25

Restores corrupted boot record from backup.

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

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Notes:

This program can only be used from the command prompt, (or via an command
line style icon shortcut) e.g. under Windows command.exe or JPSoft
tcmd.exe, formerly called the DOS box. Just clicking the programs in a
directory listing will not do anything useful. Just typing the program
names at the command prompt will not either.

This program requires a manual install! See below.

This program works with vanilla text files, (e.g. ASCII files or UTF-8
Unicode files). You will need a text editor to create and view them, not a word
processor. e.g. notepad, Visual Slick Edit or other suitable text editor
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/editor.html. You must use a monospaced font
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/monospacedfonts.html (aka fixed pitch, aka
programmer font) to view your files, or they won't look properly aligned.

I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD
files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from
anyone. What's happening? Does it all just work fine? It is so
complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it?
It is it useful? Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the
programs to their liking themselves? Did you have trouble installing? Do
I presume you know too much? I would be happy to hear from you about your
experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements. A
one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great.

===> 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 labelled non-military use only.
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
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 <span class="click">use folder names</span> 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

2.9 2012-11-25 minor chances to make avoid syntax errors from slightly different version of MASM.

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