Question: Burn two consecutively used floppy disks onto a CD? - China DOS Union Forum

The PQDI backup/restore tool has a compression ratio twice as high as GHOST. I currently have two DOS boot disks for this software; after running the first one, it prompts me to insert the second floppy. I want to use NERO's bootable disc method to burn them onto a CD, but the problem is I don't know how to burn in the contents of the second floppy so it can run. Asking the experts for advice.

No need to make it so troublesome, just use the software on the second disk directly. The first one is for booting the computer, the second one is the pqdi software.

If I burn the contents of the second floppy directly onto the CD, after booting there is only one virtual A: drive, and PQDI cannot be found. Loading the CD driver at boot might be one way, but I'd prefer to go directly into the PQDI program. Do the following two files need to be modified? How should they be changed? Please.

《AUTOEXEC。BAT》

@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G

REM -------------------------------------------------------
REM -- Put keyboard codes (xx) and --
REM -- code page variables (yyy) here. --
REM -------------------------------------------------------

REM MODE CON CP PREP=((yyy) EGA.CPI)
REM MODE CON CP SEL=yyy
REM KEYB xx,yyy

REM -------------------------------------------------------
REM -- Put network or CD-ROM drivers here. --
REM -------------------------------------------------------

REM Windows DOS:
REM MSCDEX.EXE /D:driver_name

REM Caldera DOS:
REM NWCDEX.EXE /D:driver_name

MOUSE

SET TZ=CST-8

ECHO.
ECHO Insert Drive Image Disk 2 (Program)
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO *** Press Any Key to Continue ***
ECHO.
PAUSE >NUL

ECHO Drive Image 2002
ECHO Copyright 1994-2002, PowerQuest Corporation.
ECHO All rights reserved.
ECHO.
ECHO Loading. Please wait...
ECHO.

PQDI

《CONFIG。SYS》

DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
REM DEVICE=EMM386.EXE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z

REM -------------------------------------------------------
REM -- Put code page variable (yyy) here. --
REM -------------------------------------------------------

REM DEVICEHIGH=DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,yyy,)

REM -------------------------------------------------------
REM -- Put network or CD-ROM drivers here. --
REM -------------------------------------------------------

REM DEVICE=CDROM.SYS /D=driver_name

It seems there is a software tool that can combine this kind of floppy disks together. It's called BCDW.
Not sure if I remembered correctly.

The moderator remembered right, there is a BCDW. I'll download it and take a look, thanks.

Use winimage to change the capacity to 2.88M

What if there are 3 disks? How to do it?

You can use software that loads img files into memory as a virtual A: drive to do it, such as ldx, fake, etc.
I rather like ldx; it can continuously call countless A: drive img files, just like really changing floppies,
it's in the DOS tools at http://zql3322.3322.net

Floor1　busuker	Posted 2003-09-25 00:00
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The PQDI backup/restore tool has a compression ratio twice as high as GHOST. I currently have two DOS boot disks for this software; after running the first one, it prompts me to insert the second floppy. I want to use NERO's bootable disc method to burn them onto a CD, but the problem is I don't know how to burn in the contents of the second floppy so it can run. Asking the experts for advice.

Floor2　savioler	Posted 2003-09-25 00:00
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No need to make it so troublesome, just use the software on the second disk directly. The first one is for booting the computer, the second one is the pqdi software.

Floor3　busuker	Posted 2003-09-26 00:00
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If I burn the contents of the second floppy directly onto the CD, after booting there is only one virtual A: drive, and PQDI cannot be found. Loading the CD driver at boot might be one way, but I'd prefer to go directly into the PQDI program. Do the following two files need to be modified? How should they be changed? Please. 《AUTOEXEC。BAT》 @ECHO OFF PROMPT $P$G REM ------------------------------------------------------- REM -- Put keyboard codes (xx) and -- REM -- code page variables (yyy) here. -- REM ------------------------------------------------------- REM MODE CON CP PREP=((yyy) EGA.CPI) REM MODE CON CP SEL=yyy REM KEYB xx,yyy REM ------------------------------------------------------- REM -- Put network or CD-ROM drivers here. -- REM ------------------------------------------------------- REM Windows DOS: REM MSCDEX.EXE /D:driver_name REM Caldera DOS: REM NWCDEX.EXE /D:driver_name MOUSE SET TZ=CST-8 ECHO. ECHO Insert Drive Image Disk 2 (Program) ECHO. ECHO. ECHO * Press Any Key to Continue * ECHO. PAUSE >NUL ECHO Drive Image 2002 ECHO Copyright 1994-2002, PowerQuest Corporation. ECHO All rights reserved. ECHO. ECHO Loading. Please wait... ECHO. PQDI 《CONFIG。SYS》 DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS REM DEVICE=EMM386.EXE DOS=HIGH,UMB LASTDRIVE=Z REM ------------------------------------------------------- REM -- Put code page variable (yyy) here. -- REM ------------------------------------------------------- REM DEVICEHIGH=DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,yyy,) REM ------------------------------------------------------- REM -- Put network or CD-ROM drivers here. -- REM ------------------------------------------------------- REM DEVICE=CDROM.SYS /D=driver_name

Floor4　cn_archer	Posted 2003-09-26 00:00
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It seems there is a software tool that can combine this kind of floppy disks together. It's called BCDW. Not sure if I remembered correctly.

Floor5　busuker	Posted 2003-09-26 00:00
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The moderator remembered right, there is a BCDW. I'll download it and take a look, thanks.

Floor6　welnut	Posted 2003-09-26 00:00
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Use winimage to change the capacity to 2.88M

Floor7　zl7322	Posted 2003-09-26 00:00
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What if there are 3 disks? How to do it?

Floor8　dos时代菜鸟	Posted 2003-09-27 00:00
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You can use software that loads img files into memory as a virtual A: drive to do it, such as ldx, fake, etc. I rather like ldx; it can continuously call countless A: drive img files, just like really changing floppies, it's in the DOS tools at http://zql3322.3322.net