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.

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