Daemonforce Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 I'm putting together an awesome multiboot disc and I run into a few problems in vmware. I realize that vmware is never 100% accurate as to what happens in a 32-Bit X86 environment when it comes to problems, but I need to know what good practice is when adding the following tools:PowerQuest Partition MagicPowerQuest Drive ImageFujitsu Drive Manager (DOS)Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (DOS)Maxtor MaxBlast 4Samsung Disk ManagerSeagate SeaToolsWestern Digital Caviar Install ToolWinME bootdiskSo far I have been using memdisk to run these images. I run into frequent problems when trying to run the Fujitsu/Seagate/WDC tools with memdisk and diskemu. Probably because I don't have either of those drive types in this machine. What is common practice to emulate these tools? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incroyable HULK Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 (edited) I can confirm you I have the following from your list currently working:Symantec Partition MagicFujitsu (ATA Drive Diag.)Hitachi (Drive Fitness Test)Maxtor PowerMAXWestern Digital (Data Lifeguard Diag.)Seagate SeatoolsAnd all I did was to build a floppy image of theses utilities... BUT I am using EasyBoot as my multiboot manager... Edited December 12, 2005 by Incroyable HULK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Well....You've got one on me with SeaTools. I'm going to see if WDC still gripes at me tonight. x_XI'm using CD Shell as the multiboot tool. So far so good but I've had to remove quite a bit of programming from a lot of utilities just to get them to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Ok I completed the painful task of porting floppies...Everything appears to work fine under emulation(vmware) but emulated emulation is causing crashes. When I send the disk images to CD Shell to be run under diskemu, it starts up a drive installation program and tries to bring it into the GUI and crashes instead. Any idea why this is? A fault in Xbios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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