QuickBoot

Name: QuickBoot
Rating: 4.1111 (2 reviews)

1.1

15 May 2011

Temporarily boot another drive/partition and boot back to default.

Overview

QuickBoot is a small application to make it quick & easy to temporarily boot another drive/partition like a Windows drive and have the system boot back to your default system after.

What's new in QuickBoot

Version 1.1:

New feature - Passwordless booting, authorize QuickBoot once and don't get asked again
Fixed issues booting some windows drives
Cleaner preferences window
Improved disk monitoring

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I like QuickBoot over the alternatives in that it gives me all the possible choices for booting. I have the SL install DVD in its own partition, along with 2 separate clones and Win 7 x64. With QuickBoot, I can easily run any one of them.

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Version 1.0.5

Excellent. Better than all of the other options I have tried. Unfortunately, 10.11(.1) killed it. Any chance of an update?

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Version 1.1

4 answer(s)

Wgscott

15 November 2015

Still works perfectly if you are willing to disable SIP. Apple really is being excessively heavy-handed.

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jreffner

19 November 2015

What is SIP, and how do I disbable it? Thanks

Wgscott

19 November 2015

"System Integrity Protection", aka The Apple Nannystate: http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/05/disable-rootless-system-integrity-protection-mac-os-x/

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br-smith9029

06 January 2016

I found Rapidboot works with El Capitan though it's a paid app: http://www.mattrajca.com/rapidboot/

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Version 1.0.5

Absolutely great, works flawlessly on 10.6.4 (Intel). To make a remote (head-less) server fail-safe and always start up, at terminated power, on a 'safe' partition/hard disk. (A donation link to keep the incitement up would be nice ;-)

Version 1.0.5

Intel Only Feature: One shot boot to another drive, then return to the normal on subsequent boot--- Failed to return on my machine (12" PowerBook, 1.5GHz G4, OS 10.5.8). Jeremy Knope / Buttered Cat Software responded and confirmed that this does not work on PPC machines. Nice idea for those of us who do bootable backups and do maintenance from another drive. I guess I'll continue to ride System Preferences/Startup Disk until I eventually replace my Mac

Version 1.0.4

Installed it on MacBook with Snow Leopard 10.6.1, and made it active in the top Finder menu bar. Had it running for about three days and during that time, my menu bar would either be completely transparent, be completely non-existent, be completely unresponsive, or no Finder at all except for the wall paper and the app dock. As soon as I removed it from the Finder menu bar, the computer was back to normal. It looked like it would be a very useful utility, but I think I can do without it to keep my Finder working properly. If anyone has any suggestions how to correct this issue, please post. Thanks.

Version 1.0.4

By the way, I love the title of the company.

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Version 1.0.3b3

1 answer(s)

Anonymous

14 July 2009

Thanks :) glad you like it.

Version 1.0.3b3