making a boot CD for driveimage 2002

[jim]

I know this has been broached before but alas I haven't been able to
get this working following what I could understand from earlier
threads.
I've managed to get Nero to burn a boot CD and indeed the disc does
boot up but only as far as the first of the 2-floppy rescue diskettes.
Unsurpisingly at this point the screen displays "insert disk 2 then
press any key to continue".

I've tried using Winimage to form a 2.88Mb .ima file of the two
floppies but that doesn't even get me as far as above.

I'm running XP

any tips appreciated..

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Why are you going through this exercise? The PowerQuest Drive Image 2002 CD
is bootable.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Create a bootable floppy - pop floppy into drive and right click the 3.5
floppy icon, select Format and then select option to make an MS-DOS bootable
floppy. Copy these files to the floppy from "\Program Files\PowerQuest\Drive
Image 2002\"
pqDI.ovl
PQDI.exe
pqDI.rtc

then use that floppy to create your boot CD. It should work

 

[jim]

Create a bootable floppy - pop floppy into drive and right click the 3.5
floppy icon, select Format and then select option to make an MS-DOS bootable
floppy. Copy these files to the floppy from "\Program Files\PowerQuest\Drive
Image 2002\"
pqDI.ovl
PQDI.exe
pqDI.rtc

then use that floppy to create your boot CD. It should work

thanks for replying, having sorted out the MS-DOS bootable there
wasn't then enough room left on the floppy to accomadate the three
remaining named files - pqDI.ovl is pretty big at 1008k.

my bootable had these on it (I was wondering if there might be
anything dispensable - e.g. why do I have 3 KEYBRD files?)

AUTOEXEC.BAT
COMMAND.COM
CONFIG.SYS
DISPLAY.SYS
EGA.CPI
EGA2.CPI
EGA3.CPI
IO.SYS
KEYB.COM
KEYBOARD.SYS
KEYBRD2.SYS
KEYBRD3.SYS
KEYBRD4.SYS
MODE.COM
MSDOS.SYS

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Ok let's start over 8^)
All you need on a bootable floppy is IO.SYS and COMMAND.COM but in your case
you need a generic CD-Rom driver and you might as well have mouse support
and have the floppy boot directly to Drive Image 2002.

1) To prepare a bootable floppy that runs Drive Image 2002 you need a floppy
that contains the following files
COMMAND.COM
IO.SYS
MOUSE.COM
MSCDEX.EXE
OAKCDROM.SYS

2) Create AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files as follows and add them to the
floppy
For Autoexec.bat launch Notepad and enter the following between the
"-------" but do not include the "------" then save file as AUTOEXEC.BAT
----------------
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
LH A:\MSCDEX.EXE /S /D:MSCD001
LH A:\MOUSE.COM
PQDI.EXE

----------------

For Config.sys launch Notepad and enter the following between the "-------"
but do not include the "------" then save file as CONFIG.SYS
----------------
FILES=10
BUFFERS=10
DOS=HIGH,UMB
STACKS=9,256
DEVICEHIGH=A:\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 <<Or your CD-ROM DRIVER>>
LASTDRIVE=Z

----------------
You can download these from here if you don't have them or don't want to
create the files http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/tools/di_boot.zip

3) Finally add these files to the floppy from your Powerquest\Drive Image
2002 directory
PQDI.OVL
PQDI.EXE
PQDI.RTC
PQDI.PQG

 

[Harry Ohrn]

You are welcome. Thanks for posting back 8^)

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp