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Where has Bootable Partition Magic Gone?

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  • 27-10-2007 8:51pm
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    ve
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    A few years ago I had a copy of partition magic (8.0 I think), and the CD it came on was a bootable disk. I have since lost that disk. I used it to manage several machines, with different operating systems and partition tables with various file systems, etc. The only version of partition magic I can see these days is a Win32 application which I install and only allows you to perform disk management through a windows application. This is pants, and of no use.

    I have several machines that I want to change things on, and not all of them are windows machines. Does this boot CD still exist?, can it be obtained?

    Or have we moved on from partition magic to something else?, something that I can boot in to, that is OS independent?

    Cheers


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    #2
    Anti
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    How about a live linux cd/dvd like knopixx


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    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,372 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    I found this post during a search, does it help any?

    I have already created my bootable CD for partition magic. These were the steps (using XP as the original OS):

    1) Created bootable floppy in Explorer - click C: first -- right-click on A: with a floppy inserted -- select format -- at the bottom of the window check create system disc.

    2) Next I deleted all the files I did not need on the newly-created boot floppy. The only files left were:

    COMMAND.COM
    MSDOS.SYS
    IO.SYS

    This leaves plenty of space

    3) Copied the entire contents of floppy #2 of Partition Magic's emergency rescue disk set to the bootable floppy. When asked to overwrite files, answer with NO.

    This is what the floppy looks like now:

    08.06.2000 17:00 93.040 COMMAND.COM
    05.06.2002 17:08 686 AUTOEXEC.BAT
    30.03.2001 14:38 37.681 MOUSE.COM
    20.07.2003 14:05 24 MOUSE.INI
    15.08.2002 12:01 96.000 PMHELP.DAT
    30.03.2001 14:50 38.464 PQMAGIC.EXE
    16.09.2002 17:19 845.657 PQMAGIC.OVL
    30.07.2002 17:43 43.758 PQMAGIC.PQG
    03.09.2002 17:56 2.826 RESCUE.TXT
    04.06.2001 11:35 14.355 zABOUT.PQG
    30.03.2001 14:37 502 CONFIG.SYS
    30.03.2001 14:38 3.877 DISPLAY.SYS
    30.03.2001 14:38 24.888 EGA.CPI
    29.04.2001 16:59 14.887 HIMEM.SYS
    14 Datei(en) 1.216.645 Bytes
    0 Verzeichnis(se), 118.784 Bytes frei

    The two hidden files are not listed, but as you can see I've still got around 100KB free space left on the floppy.

    4) Edit the Autoexec.bat to remove the query to insert disk #2. You can even add your own comments on the ECHO lines.

    5) Leaving the floppy in the drive, I started nero and selected bootable CD.

    DONE! I've tested it, and it worked fine.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Anti wrote: »
    How about a live linux cd/dvd like knopixx

    I used a 'PC Linux OS' live CD a week or so ago to rescue files from a broken HDD that wouldn't boot but was still accessable. Worked a charm!

    Edit: or what they said ^^ ;)


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