[Discussion] Backup & restore of bootable partitions

[Don Hawkinson]

Is there a way to make a formatted partition bootable
without doing a sysinstx from a booted system?  I have
ZIPed backups of the partition. The last time I tried
to restore a bootable partiton from a zip file, it was not
bootable without doing a sysinstx.
 
I have an old Warp 3 boot partition that  I would like to save
and I no longer have the original media.  

Is there a way to makea bootable CD from the existing partition?

Can I use my eCS installarion CD to do the sysinstx?