Cant get Partition Magic 8 to boot from the Image

[martinmacca]

Hi, im trying to add Partition Magic 8 to my Boot DVD but can not get it to work no matter what i try.

So far my DVD has:

XP Pro

ERD 2005

98 + ME Boot Disks

PC Check 6

And now im trying to add PM8 with no luck what so ever

I've followed this guide exactly http://flyakite.msfnhosting.com/imgfiles.htm

And then on my boot menu tried ALL of the following in trying to get it to boot

PM8_Key:
getkey 20 goto menu
if $lastKey == key[1]; then memdisk /files/pm8.ima
if $lastKey == key[2]; then chain /files/pm8.ima
if $lastKey == key[3]; then bcdw boot /files/pm8.ima
if $lastKey == key[4]; then bcdw /files/pm8.ima
if $lastKey == key[5]; then diskemu /files/pm.ima
if $lastKey == key[6]; then isolinux memdisk initrd=/files/pm8.ima
goto menu

The only thing i can think of is that the image file ends .ima instead of .img - would that make a difference and if so how would i convert it to .img ?

Any Ideas

[spacesurfer]

you can use winimage to convert from ima to img. don't do imz which is a compressed image format.

[martinmacca]

Right i've changed the file type to .img and it still gives me errors - most of them being invalid system disk

[spacesurfer]

extract that image to a floppy and see if it boots. maybe it's a bootsector problem.

[martinmacca]

Thanks - i found a slightly different way to create the image and that worked perfect for me

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/convert.html

[The008]

I created my .ima image using WinImage and it works perfectly. I used a 2.88MB image to boot from BCDW2 and it works! I use 98SE boot disk and add the partition magic files and set autoexec.bat to start the pmagic.exe, simply and easy;