Forum: EasyBoot
Topic: Format C: drive from EZBoot menu
started by: kjjack
Posted by kjjack on Sep. 08 2005,16:27
Can someone please tell me, how can I create a command in my menu to format the C: drive?  I have a boot image from creating a boot disk (in Win98, XP, etc).  I can't seem to access the C: drive upon running the image from my menu.

Please help?
Posted by xoben on Sep. 08 2005,21:04
Partition Magic (< http://dw.ezbsys.net/pm8.img >) may help you to format hard disks.

Posted by Incroyable HULK on Sep. 08 2005,22:46
You can also use Acronis Disk Director... much better than Partition Magic...
Posted by smartsaga on Sep. 09 2005,02:26
Is the drive NTFS? and by that I mean the file system. Usually DOS utilities cannot see NTFS partitions and so those get no drive letter (C:, D:, etc).

You might want to use a bootdisk from The Ultimate Boot CD which cointains floppy images with HD tools. One of them is called Ranish partition manager < http://ranish.com/ >

Ranish can list the paritions you have on the hard drive and erase one or all of them. Ranish can also reset (fix?) the Master Boot Record for those occations in which the Windows XP setup says something like "Could not find NTLDR" or something like that.

I think that Ranish does not support command line paramenters to automate the process of erasing partitions or entire hard drives, but I hope this helps you.

Ranish is FREE!!

Have a good one. :cool:
Posted by kjjack on Sep. 09 2005,09:13
Ok, I've tried partition magic.  When using VMWare, and running the partition magic image file from Easyboot menu, it does not detect my hard drive (C:)  only the virtual drive created by VMWare.  What now?
Posted by xoben on Sep. 09 2005,09:34
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When using VMWare, and running the partition magic image file from Easyboot menu, it does not detect my hard drive (C:)  only the virtual drive created by VMWare.

This is normal. Your drive C: is not a part of the virtual computer.
Posted by ervi on Sep. 14 2005,08:08
When adding Partition Magic to EasyBoot cd what method have u been using. I have been trying to add PM to Easy Boot cd.

i used winimage to make .img file from 1st pm floppy and then added files/folders from second floppy to that same .img file. I had to increase image to 2.88 MB though. Saved this as pm.img to easy boot cd. Run pm.img command boots just fine to some point. Its  when Partition Magic program is going to enter that 16-bit graphical mode it gives CRITICAL ERROR...why so ?
Posted by smartsaga on Sep. 16 2005,02:53
I made a multiboot CD that includes Partition Magic.

I made a ramdisk, copied all the files from PM to the RAM Drive and then ran PM from there. I think that before using the RAM Drive it used to give the error message that it could not write the script to disk.

What I used to make the RAM drive in dos is xmsdsk.exe

Here is the script I used to accomplish this task:

@echo off
@xmsdsk.exe 2048 o: /y
@mkdir o:\pqmagic7
@copy pqmagic7\*.* o:\pqmagic7 > o:\notin.txt
@o:\pqmagic7\pqmagic
@xmsdsk.exe /y /u
@menu.bat
@echo on

I guess you can guess what each line does just by looking at it.

Have a good one.
Posted by NoOne on Sep. 28 2005,02:04
after useing "Partition Magic" and when i click on "Exit" that Exit to MS-Dos Mode
is there a way to go back to the menu after click on "Exit" ?

I Need Help Please?


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