How to make a Partition Magic bootable CD with Partition Magic bootable floppy?

You need to make a bootable CD: this works by containing an image of a Partition Magic bootable floppy - so the first thing you'll need is a known working Partition Magic bootable floppy with your IDE/SCSI [including SCSI-host] CDROM drivers on it. Check it.

Even with a known working Partition Magic bootable floppy, you'll very likely have to apply IOPATCH to its IO.SYS file - this puts a pause into the boot process in which your CD-devices can flash their lights, reset and so on without the CD's unavailability freaking out the configuration files being loaded from the Partition Magic bootable floppy - they'll now just have to wait till the CD-device is ready.

Having done this; you now edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to prepare a DOS home for the utilities you'll stick on the CDROM. This is based on a standard Win 98/98SE Partition Magic bootable floppy and makes a spiffy blue-on-black extended DOS menu to give your Partition Magic as extra boot choices.

Notes for creating a Partition Magic bootable CD:

• Any files below can be found in \Windows\Command\ - or in the "oldmsdos" folder in your Win 9x CDROM.
• Your country/keyboard layout may differ from that shown [US] - check in your existing config.sys for the correct code.
• CDROM/SCSI drivers - these are the standard ones included in the Win 98/98SE Partition Magic bootable floppy - yours may differ; in any case, type "rem" [space] before any config.sys entries of files you won't need - this saves memory.
• The lowest CD-device-letter is set to "X" - if you have more than 3 such devices you'll need to set the letter higher up the alphabet.
• When you're satisfied with this Partition Magic bootable floppy and have tested it, save an uncompressed image of the Partition Magic bootable floppy.

Now make a folder on a Hard Drive, and copy mouse.com; mouse.ini; dimage.bat; pmagic.bat; & ghost.bat; into it. Make a sub-folders called: for Partition Magic - you may include the DriveImage *.PQI image - file of a working installation into the PQDI folder.

Now all you need do is fire up your favorite burning application and set it to make a Partition Magic bootable CD; with the image you have just made as its floppy-image.

But there is no need to make a Partition Magic bootable CD. The Partition Magic 8.0 program CD is already bootable and allows you to run Partition Magic from it.

For better data security, you may also use the free backup software software - EASEUS Todo Backup, which will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition within minutes.

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