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Boot floppy disk/CDROM
Table of contents
1- Preface
2- Bootdisk/CD creation
a) From binary
b) From image
3- Bootdisk usage
a) Boot menu
b) Disk content
4- Bootdisk problems
a) No mouse
b) No CD
c) No C: or C: is not the same than in Windows
d) No USB
5- Others bootdisks
6- Evolutions
a) V1.01
b) V1.02
c) V1.03
d) V1.04
e) V1.05
f) V1.06
g) V1.07
h) V1.08
i) V1.09
j) V1.10
k) V1.11
l) V1.12
m) V1.13
This document describes how to create and use the bootdisk that contains
Partition-Saving.
This bootdisk is based on FreeDOS. It does not contain the whole
FreeDOS distribution, but only a set of tools that can be useful with
Partition-Saving. It also includes a DOS USB driver from Panasonic and Novac
companies.
In case you have a Windows 9x bootable floppy disk, you have rather to use
it and copy the Partition-Saving program (savepart.exe) on it, because it
offers several options more than this disk and a better compatibility in case
you want to modify something in Windows installation or boot.
The bootdisk is provided into two formats:
a) From binaryThe binary is a Windows or Linux program that automatically creates the floppy disk. You have to launch it, click "Ok" once you have put a 1.44 MB formatted floppy disk in drive, choose the drive where you want the creation to be done (in case you have several floppy drives), confirm the disk creation and wait for the execution end (when "Ok" button becomes active).
Notes:
b) From imageThe image file is a raw image of the floppy disk. It can be used with various utilities to create floppy disk back as dd or rawwrite. To know how to use these programs, you have to refer to their manual. Basically they are launched with two parameters: the image file and where to restore it.
This image file can be used also with a CD burner program to create a bootable CD/DVD. To know how to perform this, you have to refer to your CD burner program manual. Basically, you have to choose somewhere to create a bootable CD and in associated options to select the floppy image file to use it as floppy emulation.
Notes:
a) Boot menuOnce the bootdisk is created, you have to boot your computer with the floppy disk in drive (check in your BIOS that it tries to boot from floppy first).
Note:
If your BIOS has an option to manage USB disk (in most cases, this option is
named "Legacy USB mode"), it is better to use it than using the USB driver
included on floppy disk (so you do not need to use second or fourth option).
a) Disk contentHere is a list with a short description of bootdisk content:
This chapter describes some problems that can happen when using the bootdisk.
a) No mouseIn case your mouse does not use a standard interface, it can be incorrectly detected, resulting in no mouse available or hang of program when using mouse. In such a case, if a DOS driver is delivered with this mouse, you can replace the MOUSE.EXE program with your driver and change the "mouse" line into AUTOEXEC.BAT file in case your driver is not called mouse.exe or mouse.com.
b) No CDIn case your CD drive can not be used (or generate some errors that do not appear in Windows), that can be because the CD drive is wrongly recognised. If you get a driver with your CD drive, you have to use it by replacing "XCDROM.SYS" with the name of your CD driver into FDCONFIG.SYS file and removing the "/UX" option at end of this line. In case you do not get a driver with your CD drive, you can try with some generic ones (as the ones provided with Windows 9x or the VIDE-CDD one).
c) No C: or C: is not the same than in WindowsThis can be the standard behaviour because DOS is only able to access FAT drives. So if you have some NTFS drives, DOS will not see them and drive letters do not correspond to the Windows one. You will be able to access the NTFS drives from Partition-Saving with using the mount option (see chapter 25 of Partition-Saving manual) but you will only be able to modify size of existing files, not to create new ones (see chapter 17 of Partition-Saving manual).
d) No USBIn case you can not access your USB drives despite you select the option to load USB driver, this can be because your USB interface is not recognised. In this case you can first check if there is an option in your BIOS to enable USB disk/CD access. In this case choosing option to load USB driver is no more needed (but USB disk must be plugged before boot).
Some others bootdisks can be used in case this one does not work. Some of them already incorporate Partition-Saving (not necessarily last version). Some of them are using MS-DOS so you must have a valid MS-DOS/Windows license to use them.
a) V1.01Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 3.50, diskinfo 1.05, partinfo 1.07, fileinfo 1.16).
b) V1.02Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 3.60, diskinfo 1.06, partinfo 1.08, fileinfo 1.17), add of drivinfo 1.00.
c) V1.03Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 3.70, diskinfo 1.07, partinfo 1.09, drivinfo 1.01, fileinfo 1.18).
d) V1.04Update to use last Partition-Saving version (3.71).
e) V1.05Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 3.80, diskinfo 1.08, partinfo 1.10, drivinfo 1.02, fileinfo 1.19).
f) V1.06Use of CuteMouse 2.1b4 in place of version 1.9.
g) V1.07Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 4.00, diskinfo 1.10, partinfo 1.12, drivinfo 1.04, fileinfo 1.21).
h) V1.08Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 4.10, diskinfo 1.11, partinfo 1.13, drivinfo 1.05, fileinfo 1.22). Creation of 64 bits version.
i) V1.09Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 4.20, diskinfo 1.12, partinfo 1.14, drivinfo 1.06, fileinfo 1.23).
j) V1.10Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 4.30, diskinfo 1.13, partinfo 1.15, fileinfo 1.24). Remove of drivinfo program as there is no more enough free space on disk. If you need it, you can copy it in place of another program or you can use the CD image that still has it.
k) V1.11Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 4.40, diskinfo 1.14, partinfo 1.16, fileinfo 1.25).
l) V1.12Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 4.50, diskinfo 1.15, partinfo 1.17, fileinfo 1.26).
m) V1.13Update to use last programs version (Partition-Saving 4.60, diskinfo 1.16, partinfo 1.18, fileinfo 1.27).
D. Guibouret <>