 Booting from logical drive, Fat32 dos |
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 Nov 3 2009, 04:40 PM
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QUOTE (Ben_Mott @ Oct 22 2005, 01:00 PM)  the ghost gives you option to make 2 bootable Floppy disks have you still got those?? If you have boot with those then from the Gui menu choose HDD to image for source and then you get a choce of destinations choose your DVD drive and click ok then you are given option to make DVD bootable say "yes" follow the instruction on screen. and you end up with a boot cd  Ben, Can you point me in the direction to download the "bootmanager.exe" that allows you to use the f10 or f11 key to be able to boot to a logical drive. I want to set it up to do an auto ghost recovery. I have had a look at a lot of boot managers but none have the option of using the functions keys. Thanks John |
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Nov 3 2009, 04:42 PM
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HI,
Can anyone point me in the direction to download the "bootmanager.exe" that allows you to use the f10 or f11 key to be able to boot to a logical drive. I want to set it up to do an auto ghost recovery. I have had a look at a lot of boot managers but none have the option of using the functions keys. Thanks John |
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Nov 3 2009, 05:28 PM
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I have formatted a logical drive with win98 fat 32 and transfered the sys files. I am using a boot manager to boot to the logical drive but all I get is a flashing curser. The extended dos partition has 2 logical drives. I have tried various boot managers and tried making the extended dos partition active but still with no luck. My c: drive is running windows xp with the ntfs file system.
Any help please John |
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Nov 3 2009, 05:30 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 31-October 09 Member No.: 48,764 |
I have formatted a logical drive with win98 fat 32 and transfered the sys files. I am using a boot manager to boot to the logical drive but all I get is a flashing curser. The extended dos partition has 2 logical drives. I have tried various boot managers and tried making the extended dos partition active but still with no luck. My c: drive is running windows xp with the ntfs file system.
Any help please John |
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Nov 4 2009, 12:42 AM
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Silver Member Group: Members Posts: 300 Joined: 23-November 04 From: Meißen, Germany Member No.: 8,604 |
May be this can help a little bit: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=17144
Especially Ed_P's link in post 3 of this thread. Greetings, FM_81 PS: But be careful in such things! VERY CAREFUL! -------------------- Who ask's, may be a fool for about five minutes! Who don't ask, may be a fool for the rest of his life!
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Nov 4 2009, 03:41 AM
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Platinum Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4,309 Joined: 25-July 04 From: Italy Member No.: 6,779 |
QUOTE (simo @ Nov 3 2009, 10:42 PM) HI, Can anyone point me in the direction to download the "bootmanager.exe" that allows you to use the f10 or f11 key to be able to boot to a logical drive. I want to set it up to do an auto ghost recovery. I have had a look at a lot of boot managers but none have the option of using the functions keys. Thanks John I am not sure about the "boot a logical drive"?  Can you detail better what you want to do? About Function keys, there are several actually, one is the one from terabyte unlimited, but that won't probably be useful to you: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm and one is mbldr: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=334 http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbldr/files/ this may give you some hints: http://www.msfn.org/board/hp-notebook-reco...0-page-105.html But of course you can use grub4dos allright: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 jaclaz -------------------- - Fighting against bloatware since 2004, and proud of it. -
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Nov 4 2009, 03:45 AM
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Platinum Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4,309 Joined: 25-July 04 From: Italy Member No.: 6,779 |
simo,
you don't need to post all over the board.  TOPICS/POSTS MERGED: 1 problem=1 thread A logical volume inside extended is NOT normally bootable. BUT you can boot it with syslinux or grub4dos by directly chainloading the system file (i.e. by-passing the bootsector) OR by fixing the bootsector data: http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ptedit.htm jaclaz -------------------- - Fighting against bloatware since 2004, and proud of it. -
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Nov 4 2009, 04:30 PM
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 Platinum Member Group: Admin Posts: 4,615 Joined: 12-August 05 From: Western NY, USA Member No.: 13,258 |
Any particular reason why the nonbooting logical partition can't be changed to a Primary one?
-------------------- A useful posting: Adding drivers to BartPE; NIC, SATA, video A helpful thread: BartPE Troubleshooting FAQs  Use the forum's search tool to find postings about problems similar to yours.For searches involving three letter acronyms such as USB add an * to the end. For example: USB* The  button is your friend and is located just below the  one for Quote Reply.Ed |
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Nov 4 2009, 04:39 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 31-October 09 Member No.: 48,764 |
Sorry to post all over the board. I was trying to get exposure in different areas. My fault -- sorry. Thanks for your help and advice. QUOTE (jaclaz @ Nov 4 2009, 04:45 AM) simo, you don't need to post all over the board. TOPICS/POSTS MERGED: 1 problem=1 thread A logical volume inside extended is NOT normally bootable. BUT you can boot it with syslinux or grub4dos by directly chainloading the system file (i.e. by-passing the bootsector) OR by fixing the bootsector data: http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ptedit.htm jaclaz |
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Nov 4 2009, 04:40 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 31-October 09 Member No.: 48,764 |
QUOTE (Ed_P @ Nov 4 2009, 05:30 PM) Any particular reason why the nonbooting logical partition can't be changed to a Primary one? No reason why it can't be primary. I was under the impression that you couldn't have 2 primary partitions. |
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Nov 4 2009, 04:42 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 31-October 09 Member No.: 48,764 |
I have finally found the bootmanager.exe program from ibm that allows booting to another partition by using the f10 & f11 keys. Thanks for your help John This post has been edited by Ed_P: Nov 4 2009, 07:36 PM
Reason for edit: Removed needless quote. Please use the Add REPLY button.
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Nov 4 2009, 07:37 PM
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Platinum Member Group: Admin Posts: 4,615 Joined: 12-August 05 From: Western NY, USA Member No.: 13,258 |
QUOTE (simo @ Nov 4 2009, 04:40 PM) No reason why it can't be primary. I was under the impression that you couldn't have 2 primary partitions. Actually you can have up to 4 Primary partitions but only one Active partition. -------------------- A useful posting: Adding drivers to BartPE; NIC, SATA, video A helpful thread: BartPE Troubleshooting FAQs Use the forum's search tool to find postings about problems similar to yours.For searches involving three letter acronyms such as USB add an * to the end. For example: USB* The button is your friend and is located just below the one for Quote Reply.Ed |
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