id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
16	MBR track gets partly overwritten by System Mechanic Pro under Win7	thomabrown	Ben Rietbroek	"Running AiR-BOOT v.1.1.0 debug version (See ticket # 11), booting to Windows 7 with System Mechanic Pro V 12 from Iolo (http://www.iolo.com)
overwrites part of AiR-BOOT's track 0 with what seems to be a copy of the MBR sector. This results in a failure on the next boot with:

 - The configuration of AiR-BOOT is not intact anymore.
   Please boot via AiR-BOOT disc to restore AiR-BOOT.
   System halted. Please press RESET.

Just booting Win 7 with System Mechanic Pro will do this. It seems to happen before the appearance of the Win7 logon screen. If I restart Win 7 from the logon screen, the damage has already been done. If I uninstall SM Pro, the problem goes away. I have attached two image files produced with DFSee V 11.7. Comparing the ""good"" one that boots OK with the ""bad"" one that does not, the problem seems to be at offset x'7000'.

This system is running both eCS and Win7 from a Plextor PX-256M5Pro 256 GiB SATA SSD. 

Can the AiR-BOOT environment be protected against this?

I think my chances of getting Iolo to fix their software are rather low. My preliminary report of the problem resulted in instruction for total removal of their software.

Thanks!"	enhancement	assigned	major		Boot Manager	1.0