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Waiting For Disk

Started by Trial User_Seupsut_* , Aug 12 2007 10:31 AM

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#1 Trial User_Seupsut_*

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Posted 12 August 2007 - 10:31 AM

I've seen a few other threads about this, but never an answer. I'm trying to burn an image of Partition Magic to DVD to use as a boot disk (created the image with Alcohol 120%), but whenever I choose the Image Burning Wizard, then the .MDS file, I get a window that states: "Waiting for disc".

I took a screen shot to cover all bases...
<img src="http://img.photobuck...t/Waiting.jpg">

I took out the blank DVD that was in there and tried 4 others, and every time it indicates that it sees a blank DVD but wont progress from that window.

Any help would be muchly apreciated.

Thanks

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#2 ptolomeus3

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Posted 12 August 2007 - 11:16 AM

QUOTE (Seupsut @ Aug 12 2007, 07:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've seen a few other threads about this, but never an answer. I'm trying to burn an image of Partition Magic to DVD to use as a boot disk (created the image with Alcohol 120%), but whenever I choose the Image Burning Wizard, then the .MDS file, I get a window that states: "Waiting for disc".

I took a screen shot to cover all bases...
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Seupsut/Waiting.jpg">

I took out the blank DVD that was in there and tried 4 others, and every time it indicates that it sees a blank DVD but wont progress from that window.

Any help would be muchly apreciated.

Thanks

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I suppose that "Partition Magic" is a soft? Does the original software come on Cd´s or DVD´s ?

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#3 Jito463

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Posted 12 August 2007 - 01:11 PM

That error means Alcohol is looking for a CD, not a DVD. So you need to burn it to a CD instead.

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#4 zamiel

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Posted 12 August 2007 - 03:07 PM

@ptolomeus3

Partition Magic allows you to resize your partitions whilst still retaining all the data.

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#5 Trial User_Seupsut_*

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Posted 12 August 2007 - 11:24 PM

QUOTE (zamiel @ Aug 12 2007, 10:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

@ptolomeus3

Partition Magic allows you to resize your partitions whilst still retaining all the data.

Ahh, so because it's a CD image, you can't just throw it onto a DVD and have it work?

And the reason I need the boot disk for Partition Magic is that I'm running a x64 system and PM doesn't work on x64 systems without a boot disk.

Thank you for your information.

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#6 zamiel

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Posted 12 August 2007 - 11:33 PM

You can only burn CD's to CD's and DVD's to DVD's, you can't mix and match etc.

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#7 Trial User_Seupsut_*

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Posted 13 August 2007 - 11:24 PM

QUOTE (zamiel @ Aug 13 2007, 07:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You can only burn CD's to CD's and DVD's to DVD's, you can't mix and match etc.

Wicked, that's exactly what I needed to know. Threw in the CD and it worked great. Turns out I needed to do something else to get the program to work but now I know for the future. Thanks for all your help.