Need to change Drive Letter for Boot CD Emulations

[Displaced Kiwi]

Firstly, congratulations on a wonderful piece of software. The features are good, and it is obviously well maintained.

 

I do have one suggestion for a minor change.

 

The Make Image Bootable options work well BUT the drive letters are fixed. A: is used for floppy disk images and C: is used for hard disk images. For most normal usage this is fine.

 

However many DOS disk management utilities such as PartitionMagic and Drive Image will fail when running off a CD operating as drive C:. They try to access C: assuming that it is the first REAL hard drive, which it is not.

 

If we could change the drive letter that the emulation runs under this would get around this type of issue. Either that or force all emulations to run as drive A:.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Drive letters are nothing to do with me.

[Displaced Kiwi]

OK then the systems booting the CDs must be able to see a difference between a floppy image (A:) and a hard drive image (C:) otherwise the assigned drive letters wouldn't be different.

 

I've also seen DOS boot CDs written by other software start up using other drive letters, including Y:.

[Displaced Kiwi]

Another option would be to provide boot image emulation of removable media > 2.88 MB, such as a Zip drive.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It all comes down to the bootloader itself, I've not seen any mention of emulating specific hardware (beyond what's already possible) in the el-torito specs. The zip one is probably just done using the 'None/Custom' format and using the correct boot image file.

 

So anyway, I believe you're barking up the wrong tree.