[ct-user] Be careful when making a bootable CT flash drive !!

[kd4d at comcast.net]

Hi Henry and Mal:

There is a FREE alternative to Partition Magic called gparted which is widely used
by the Linux community.  It is available on a free, bootable CD called Parted Magic:

It is available from www.partedmagic.com.  Free is MY favorite price and it works
quite well.

Just burn the ISO image as a bootable CD and boot.  GParted works very much
like Partition Magic.

73,

Mark, KD4D

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "N7MAL" <N7MAL at CITLINK.NET>
> It's to bad you couldn't post your problem before you reformatted and started 
> over. Since, and because, you like to experiment you need to get yourself a copy 
> of Partition Magic. If you had that it would have only taken a few minutes to 
> undo the problem you created, and you would not have lost anything.....
> I made a couple of gigs DOS drive, FAT32, using Partition Magic. When I use that 
> drive I boot from a CD. For contests, like this coming weekend. I don't want to 
> have any windows stuff available to distract me during SS.
> Best 73
> 
> MAL       
> N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> http://www.n7mal.com
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Henry Wingate 
> To: CT-User at contesting.com 
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:34
> Subject: [ct-user] Be careful when making a bootable CT flash drive !!
> 
> 
> Since my new computer is able to boot directly from a USB flash drive, I 
> decided to make DOS boot version with CT DOS
> on it. That way I could have the rock solid performance of CT DOS as 
> well as the flawless CW, and not have to worry about
> conflicts in the windows machine.
> 
> When I finished building the flash drive, the system would not boot to 
> windows and gave the dreaded message "missing operating
> system". My new computer was destroyed ! Apparently  the culprit was the 
> DOS fdisk command,  which  not only  wrote
> the partition on the flash drive but also wrote it to the hard drive as 
> well. When I tried to repair the hard drive with the
> windows cd utilities, it said that the drive had a FAT16 partition. I 
> had to completely re-install windows. What a PITA, I still
> don't know how much I lost. I know a lot of my contest logs are gone.
> 
> So, if you are going to make one of these, I would recommend  disabling 
> or removing the  drive  just to be safe.
> 
> On the good side the flash drive works fine.
> 
> Henry, K4HAL
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