Booting Floppy Disk Utilites from CD Drive

rjd · 7 Nov 2007 at 13:34

Hi All

Samsung Disk Manager comes with a 'creator' utility so it can be setup to boot from a floppy disk.

How can I set it (and other floppy disk utilites) up to boot from my CD/DVD Drive please?

Thanks for your help.

Admiral Huddy · 7 Nov 2007 at 13:36

Go into your BIOS and change the Boot priorty to CD first, then HDD.

rjd · 7 Nov 2007 at 13:44

Hi Admiral Huddy

My bios is already setup to boot from CD first but the Samsung creator utility will only let me create Samsung Disk Manager on a floppy disk.

How can I point it to my CD disk instead?

Admiral Huddy · 7 Nov 2007 at 14:08

You could just try burning a boot CD with the tools on.

Failing that, UBCD contains the Samsung Disk Manager

Look at the list of HDD tools

rjd · 7 Nov 2007 at 14:27

Thanks Admiral Huddy

I did try UBCD but found it difficult navigate (it didn't seem to offer any mouse support) and I didn't want to press the wrong key and **** up my drive.

Also, it only had an older version of Samsung Hard Disk Manager and I would prefer to use v10.4 if possible for my SpinPoint T 500GB Sata ll OEM (HD501LJ).

Any more suggestions please?

bledd · 7 Nov 2007 at 18:13

why do you need to load the samsung disk manager?

all modern os's can do this themselves

rjd · 7 Nov 2007 at 19:24

Hi bledd.

When I was using WinME I used Samsung Disk Manager to take an image of C drive so I could easily backup and restore (rather than reinstalling).

I am trying to do the same with WinXP but via CD rather than FDD.

Samsung also provide Disk Diagnostics utilities which I would like to use to check/change acoustic management etc.

Any suggestions?

bledd · 8 Nov 2007 at 12:09

acronis true image

download the demo for that, install it, then use the demo to make a live boot cd, then uninstall the demo, now boot from that cd to make the image

JohnnyG · 8 Nov 2007 at 12:51

rjd said:
Thanks Admiral Huddy

I did try UBCD but found it difficult navigate (it didn't seem to offer any mouse support) and I didn't want to press the wrong key and **** up my drive.
Any more suggestions please?

Yes, please fully star out any swearing in future

rjd · 10 Nov 2007 at 14:04

Booting Floppy Disk Utilites from CD Drive - UPDATE

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I have now found a CD iso version of Disk Manager on the Samsung website.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/Support_DiskManager.html

Either I missed it before or it has only recently appeared.

I now have a backup image of my C drive (in my case WinXP and Main applications) as at today.

If you have a Samsung HDD, you may want to give it a try as it not only offers an easy way to take an image of partitions but also offers other usefully utilities.