I'm having weird problems with bootprep and was hoping that somebody could
tell me what is going on...

I have a CompactFlash that I've fdisk-ed, formatted, etc. - everything seems
fine (double checked), but when I try to run bootprep I get a "Drive.Open
error - permission denied". I've done this a hundred times before and never
had this problem - what could be causing this?

Thanks,
JC

JC, I've never seen that one. Sorry.

Magnus, are you formatting with NTFS? If you're formatting with FAT I don't
see how you can get away w/o BOOTPREP.

Magnus wrote:
> It has been my experience that if you have formated the
> disk (via Windows format tools) and set the partition to
> active in fdisk that you do not need to run bootprep.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I'm having weird problems with bootprep and was hoping that somebody
>> could tell me what is going on...
>>
>> I have a CompactFlash that I've fdisk-ed, formatted, etc. -
>> everything seems fine (double checked), but when I try to run
>> bootprep I get a "Drive.Open error - permission denied". I've done
>> this a hundred times before and never had this problem - what could
>> be causing this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JC
>> .

--
Gordon Smith (eMVP)
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Yes sorry NTFS I thought that I stated that previously
but I guess not

Magnus
>-----Original Message-----
>JC, I've never seen that one. Sorry.
>
>Magnus, are you formatting with NTFS? If you're
formatting with FAT I don't
>see how you can get away w/o BOOTPREP.
>
>Magnus wrote:
>> It has been my experience that if you have formated the
>> disk (via Windows format tools) and set the partition to
>> active in fdisk that you do not need to run bootprep.
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> I'm having weird problems with bootprep and was hoping
that somebody
>>> could tell me what is going on...
>>>
>>> I have a CompactFlash that I've fdisk-ed, formatted,
etc. -
>>> everything seems fine (double checked), but when I try
to run
>>> bootprep I get a "Drive.Open error - permission
denied". I've done
>>> this a hundred times before and never had this
problem - what could
>>> be causing this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> JC
>>> .
>
>--
>Gordon Smith (eMVP)
>(E-Mail Removed)
>
>
>.
>

Ok - that makes much more sense. BOOTPREP is only needed with FAT
partitions. BOOTPREP replaces the boot sector with a NT style boot sector.
FAT includes a dos style boot sector, whereas NTFS already includes a NT
style boot sector.

--Gordon Smith (eMVP)

magnus wrote:
> Yes sorry NTFS I thought that I stated that previously
> but I guess not
>
> Magnus
>> -----Original Message-----
>> JC, I've never seen that one. Sorry.
>>
>> Magnus, are you formatting with NTFS? If you're formatting with FAT
>> I don't see how you can get away w/o BOOTPREP.
>>
>> Magnus wrote:
>>> It has been my experience that if you have formated the
>>> disk (via Windows format tools) and set the partition to
>>> active in fdisk that you do not need to run bootprep.
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> I'm having weird problems with bootprep and was hoping that
>>>> somebody could tell me what is going on...
>>>>
>>>> I have a CompactFlash that I've fdisk-ed, formatted, etc. -
>>>> everything seems fine (double checked), but when I try to run
>>>> bootprep I get a "Drive.Open error - permission denied". I've done
>>>> this a hundred times before and never had this
> problem - what could
>>>> be causing this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> JC
>>>> .
>>
>> --
>> Gordon Smith (eMVP)
>> (E-Mail Removed)
>>
>>
>> .

--
Gordon Smith (eMVP)
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Thanks for all the info. I'm certain that there is no "virus protection"
enabled in the BIOS.

Will try different a brand of CompactFlash and will also try the NTFS
route - will post my results here.

JC


"JC Heyneke" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm having weird problems with bootprep and was hoping that somebody could
> tell me what is going on...
>
> I have a CompactFlash that I've fdisk-ed, formatted, etc. - everything
seems
> fine (double checked), but when I try to run bootprep I get a "Drive.Open
> error - permission denied". I've done this a hundred times before and
never
> had this problem - what could be causing this?
>
> Thanks,
> JC
>
>
>
>