I work at a computer systems/network installation business. The problem is:

Seagate has DiscWizard & Matrox have MaxBlast. I just can't find any self-bootable .ISO image on the WD Website which I can download and burn directly to a CD.

Its a real pain to format a 40GB using fdisk.eXe. Also, fdisk doesn't support bigger HDs. WD's Data LifeGuard Tools 11.0 do have a partitioning utility, but you must have a working system along with Windows to make it work, which isn't really available at all sites.

I tried sending this mail to WD tech support but all I got was auto-response from the server that my query isn't forwarded to the tech support dept since I can get my answers from the following (links were given @ bottom of page) pages.

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;config.tXt

;30.07.2004

;23:19 PST

Graphic Card: Matrox Millenium G200 AGP

Model #: Just ain't feeling like unscrewing to look inside.............

Sr #: Just ain't feeling like unscrewing to look inside.............

Driver version: 6.83.017 in Win98, 5.92.006 in WinXP

PD version: 6.83.017 in Win98, 6.92.004 in WinXP

VT version: N/A

MGA Bios version: 1.4.004

Hardware rev.: 133

CPU: AMD Athlon 600 MHz (AMD K7600MTR51B) @687MHz (FSB114, CL2)

Chipset: VIA Apollo KX133 (VT8731 + 82C686A)

Motherboard: SL-77KV

Motherboard Bios: L5

PCB ver: M5

Motherboard chipset patches: AGP GART 1.80a from VIA Hyperion 4.51v

RAM: 1x Kingston 256MB KVR133X64C3/256 (@148MHz)

OS: Windows 4.10.2222A & Windows XP 5.1.2600.1106 SP1a

Desktop resolution and color depth: 1024x768, 32bpp

DirectX version: DX9.0b, 4.09.0000.0902 in Win98, Win2000

Hard Drive: Seagate Baraccuda 7200.7, ST380011A; firmware v3.06

SCSI card type: NIL

Sound card and driver version: Integrated VIA AC'97, drv v5.40a in Win98/WinXP

Hardware rev.: 032

Monitor brand: Philips 105S2

CD-ROM Drive (make/model): Asus S520/A, firmware rev. 2.0L

Network card: NIL

Fax MODEM: Amigo AMI-2019E, (also called AM HW 3056) (PCI slot 3 of 5)

Driver Version: 3.37

Hardware revision: 001

IRQ settings and other devices:

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Ahsan Zaheer Shaikh

Student

H.S.C.-II

Adamjee Govt. Science College,

Karachi.

If you can get hold of it, suppose you could use something like Partition Magic.

It's not gonna be hardware vendor specific, so shouldn't be a problem for your different drive types.

Dunno if that's the kind of thing you're after??

Smudge

Just use winimage to make a floppy-disk image of a win98 emergency boot-disk. Then use that as the boot-sector for a CD, and copy over your installed folder of PartitionMagic8 onto your CD.

Can do all this in Nero, and then burn the CD.

So WD's finally answered:

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Response (Craig C.)

I apologize but Western Digital does not offer an .ISO file to create our software on a CD. The only version of our Data Lifeguard v11 installation software for DOS must be installed onto a floppy diskette. This can be downloaded from the direct link below.

http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlg11_dos.exe

umm...as a side note....

you could either make a floppy image from the disc created, and use that was the boot sector of the CD (it works, trust me....user CDIMAGE if you wish for simplicity) and then you have a CD.

Otherwise, still make the floppy image, then use CDShell and have access to all three on the same CD.