Bootable 2 part CD - Anyone know if this is possible? (stupid title)

[Doobie]

I have partition magic and the rescue disks consist of two. I hate boot disks so I want to make a bootable cd. I know how to make a bootable cd but what I want to do is be able to put both diskettes on one cd that way I don’t have to use 2 cds.

I have tried making the first Cd bootable with the first diskette and then copying the second diskette to the cd but that was a no go.

Has anyone done this before?

[Nuclear Krusader]

Hmm...

I've found some items. Perhaps you can find what you are looking for there.

http://search.pcworld.com/query.html?qt=bootable+CD&col=hh&inthe=315360000&ws=0&nh=10&rf=0&lk=1&qm=0&st=1&rq=0&ql=a&si=0&dt=in&ht=0&la=en&fl0=&op0=

(BTW, a Reyes Magos gift should be coming your way soon :) )

[stump]

Try copying both disks onto one CD, boot from that CD, then run pqmagic.exe

FYI, a win98 boot disk an be substituted for the first PQmagic floppy.

[Doobie]

kool I will try these and let you guys know the results... Thanks

[Doobie]

Thanks nuke... that was just what I was looking for...


stump it didnt run it that way in case you ever give it a try....

[stump]

Hi Doobie, Sorry I led you down a dead-end road...My bad. I didn't realize that even though you boot from CD, it still looks for the floppy. I wasn't at my home computer so I jumped the gun & posted W/O testing first. :(

What I ended up doing was: used Nero, a win 98 boot disk, and the files from PM disk 2 to make a bootable CD. Then I run pqmagic.exe. It works great; alot faster than the two PM floppy disks. I even added a couple of other dos programs that I often use.