[Discussion] Backup & restore of bootable partitions

[Thomas Clayton]

> Can I use my eCS installarion CD to do the sysinstx?
That would put eCS in the root NOT Warp3.

As I recall, one had to make a two, or three, diskette set of floppies (unless your computer can BOOT from YOUR zip cartridges!) and use those to boot and run a cmd line version of your restore app (that came with! your backup app) which THEN put everything back (together again). There MAY have been a requirement for SysInstX to be on the floppies.

With Zip cartridges and their capacity, all that could be on one of them.
Do you KNOW whether you can boot from those backup Zip cartridges or not?

Hold it. I just re-read your letter. Are you saying you PKZipped the  entire partition into *.zip files? If so, where are they (the *.zip files)? (Hopefully, they are NOT on a whole bunch of floppies!)

If THIS is the case;
You might NOT be ABLE make a BOOTable partition but you should be able to EXPAND everything onto a HPFS partition AND then recover anything you desire in terms of data files (documents/ programs / source code you've written). Getting app.s to run and their DLL links would be a BIG challenge. (I recall that you ARE a programmer of good repute! :-)  )

We could supply you with some Warp3 but WHAT fixPack level was the OS within the Zip files? They might not be compatible.

I hope this helps - at least some.

Thomas Clayton


--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Don Hawkinson <dwhawk at intcon.net> wrote:

> From: Don Hawkinson <dwhawk at intcon.net>
> Subject: [Discussion] Backup & restore of bootable partitions
> To: "discussion at lists.possi.org" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 10:00 PM
> 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?
>