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More reliable thanks to replication and cyclic redundancy check (CRC) protection of the partition table;
A well defined and fully self-identifying partition format (data critical to the platform operation is located in
partitions, but not in un-partitioned or hidden sectors as this is the case with MBR).
Apple Boot Camp
Boot Camp is a special utility to help you set up a dual boot system (Mac OS X and 32-bit Windows XP/Vista) on Intel-
based Macs. It enables to securely re-partition your hard disk (resize an existing HFS+ partition to create a separate
partition for Windows) and then launch the installation process. With Boot Camp all the necessary drivers will be at your
disposal. Moreover after Windows has been installed it will serve as a boot manager to choose what operating system
to start up.
64-bit Support
The bulk of software today is written for a 32-bit processor. It can meet the requirements of almost any end user.
However that is not the case when dealing with servers processing large amounts of data with complex calculations of
very large numbers. That is where 64-bit architecture comes into play.
It can boast improved scalability for business applications that enables to support more customer databases and more
simultaneous users on each server. Besides a 64-bit kernel can access more system resources, such as memory
allocation per user. A 64-bit processor can handle over 4 billion times more memory addresses than a 32-bit processor.
With these resources, even a very large database can be cached in memory.
Although many business applications run without problems on 32-bit systems, others have grown so complex that they
use up the 4 GB memory limitation of a 32-bit address space. With this large amount of data, fewer memory resources
are available to meet memory needs. On a 64-bit server, most queries are able to perform in the buffers available to the
database.
Some 32-bit applications make the transition to the 64-bit environment seamlessly others do not. For instance, system-
level utilities and programs that provide direct hardware access are likely to fail. Our program offers a full-fledged
support of the 64-bit architecture providing fault-tolerant work for such system dependent modules as Hot Processing.
Copy Operations
Hard drive duplication nowadays is becoming highly popular among PC users. That is due to some definite advantages it
can offer. First of all, many people clone hard disks just to back up data for security reasons. The present day copy
utilities enable to successfully transfer all on-disk information including standard bootstrap code and other system
service structures, thus maintaining the operating system’s working capability. In case of a system malfunction, the user
can get the system back on track in minutes. No additional configuration is required, what is very convenient.
The second possible application is the upgrade of a hard disk to a new one. The capacity of a modern hard drive doubles
every two years, thus opening up new possibilities for software developers. As a result programs become more
complicated and require considerable amount of free space. One day the user realizes that there is no more free space
left on the hard disk and the only way out is to upgrade. Usually that means that besides purchasing a new hard disk,