How to create a Partition Magic bootable rescue CD (NOT: floppies!! ) ?

[Gerd Pohlmann]

Is there a way of creating a bootable rescue CD for Partition Magic ?

When I go into PM 8 I only see a menu:

Tools->Create Rescue Disks

for floppies.

Gerd

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to add Partition Magic V8 rescue disks to Ultimate Boot CD
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/pm8.html

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| Is there a way of creating a bootable rescue CD for Partition Magic ?
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| When I go into PM 8 I only see a menu:
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| Tools->Create Rescue Disks
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| for floppies.
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| Gerd

 

[Badger]

Is there a way of creating a bootable rescue CD for Partition Magic ?

When I go into PM 8 I only see a menu:

Tools->Create Rescue Disks

for floppies.

Gerd

Hi Gerd
See the post above by Tom Parson labled
How to join 2 (or more) bootable ISO images into 1 bootable CD of DVD?

 

[Don MI]

Is there a way of creating a bootable rescue CD for Partition Magic ?

When I go into PM 8 I only see a menu:

Tools->Create Rescue Disks

for floppies.

Gerd

The Partition Magic Version 8 CD is bootable. You only need the floppy
Rescue Disks if your computer does not support booting from CD. See
Partition Magic 8.0 Quick Start Guide page 3.

Don

 

[Joseph Fenn]

Is there a way of creating a bootable rescue CD for Partition Magic ?

When I go into PM 8 I only see a menu:

Tools->Create Rescue Disks

for floppies.

Gerd

TOOLS-Create Rescue Disks (those are the magic words right there)!
Choose yes and it will create 2 floppies for you to use as boot
disks if things go awry!. They are dos based disks and setup to
run from a floppy.
Joe

 

[Colin Wilson]

Is there a way of creating a bootable rescue CD for Partition Magic ?

<cough> Hirens Boot CD </cough>

http://62.253.162.19/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html

 

[dg1261]

Is there a way of creating a bootable rescue CD for Partition Magic ?

Yes. You don't say what CD-burning software you're using, but I'll assume
you have something that can create a bootable CD, like Nero or Roxio.

The rescue floppies PM creates are really just a DOS boot disk (floppy #1)
and the PM program (disk #2). So if you already know how to create a
DOS-bootable CD, the only extra step is to add the contents of disk #2 into
your CD project.

Here's the general overview:

(1) Get a Win98 boot floppy--aka, "Win98 Startup Disk". Download one from
www.bootdisk.com if you don't already have one.

(2) Start your burning software, and use the DOS boot floppy as the source
image for your bootable CD project.

(3) Drag the following files into the burning project:
- pqmagic.exe
- pqmagic.ovl
- pqmagic.pqg
- pqpb.rtc
- pmhelp.dat
- mouse.com
(These should be on rescue floppy #2, or drag directly from the
\english\dosmake\disk2 directory on the PM8 CD.)

(4) Burn the CD.

(5) To use: boot from the CD. During bootup, note what drive letter DOS
assigns to the CD drive. When booting is finished, you'll be left at the
A:\ prompt. Switch to the CD drive letter ("cd e:", for example), then
launch pqmagic.exe.

That's the basics. But you can tweak things further, if you like.

Option #1: edit the config.sys file on the boot floppy to eliminate the
useless "without CD support?" boot option, as you'll always be booting the
CD with CD support.

Option #2: edit the boot floppy to designate a specific CD drive letter
(e.g., add the /L:R parameter to the mscdex instruction in the autoexec.bat
file to set the CD letter as drive R: ).

Option #3: edit the autoexec.bat file on the boot floppy to automatically
switch drive letters and launch pqmagic.exe without stopping at the A:\
prompt. (Note you need to make sure the drive letter won't change first, so
use option #2 in conjunction with this).

Option #4: plenty of space on the CD, so add lots of other DOS-based
utilities to the CD project.

Option #5: even with additional DOS-based extras, the project won't be very
big, so burn it onto one of those 3.5" mini-CDs, which are easier to carry
around with you.

 

[RJK]

It's not woth fiddling with, use Norton Ghost for backup image files

regards, Richard

 

[Lil' Dave]

Yes, but its too complicated and lengthy. And, does not relate to XP.

 

[George Hester]

If it was PowerQuest that still owned Partition Magic I bet you could have
asked them and they would have given it to you. But now since it is a
Norton product I doubt they will even listen to you. Couldn't you just make
a bootable CD-ROM and some how write the result of the discs to the CD?

 

[Paul Knudsen]

Is there a way of creating a bootable rescue CD for Partition Magic ?

When I go into PM 8 I only see a menu:

Tools->Create Rescue Disks

for floppies.

Gerd

Version 7 only creates floppies and I guess they didn't change that.
But I've never had a problem with PM.

Acronis TrueImage will create a bootable CD.

 

[laurent.vanroy]

Have you tried creating a bootable CD and copy all your floppy content
on the CD ?

 

[Thomas Ponta]

Have you tried creating a bootable CD with a program like Nero and burning
the PM rescue files onto it?

 

[Jason Haynes]

The PM cd is bootable and will perform the function of rescue disks so you
don't need to create rescue disks.

 

[Frank]

Make sure that your computer can boot from the CD drive by checking your
computers BIOS and Try booting from the CD itself.

 

[Frank]

Make sure that your computer can boot from the CD drive by checking your
computers BIOS and Try booting from the Partition Magic CD itself.