Hi,

I'm trying to create a CF card with NTFS booting my XPe platform. When I
power up my board, I get the error that NTLDR is missing.

Does anyone know how to create a bootable NTFS compact flash card or if it's
even possible ?

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Jens Søe Christiansen

Hi,
CF card booting is possible when CF is formatted as FAT16 type. By using
the bootprep.exe located in Windows Embedded\utilities\ .
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V.Veerasivakumar
InLott Technologies Pvt Ltd,
Chennai,
India.

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"Søe" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a CF card with NTFS booting my XPe platform. When I
> power up my board, I get the error that NTLDR is missing.
>
> Does anyone know how to create a bootable NTFS compact flash card or if it's
> even possible ?
>
> --
> Jens Søe Christiansen

Hi,
yes this is possible.
I used a CF to IDE Adapter to connect the CF Card to a PC.

- boot up the PC with PQ Magic or Acronis Disk Director Suite to partion and
format the CF Card. Format the partion(s) with NTFS.
- boot up the PC with Windows XP / 2000 or a WinPE CD and copy all XPe image
data to the CF Card.
- now you can boot from the flash card

I recomend that you use RAM REG EWF to protect the CF Card. For RAM REG EWF
you can work with a CF Card that is detected as removeable media. You don't
need to make it unremoveable.

"Søe" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a CF card with NTFS booting my XPe platform. When I
> power up my board, I get the error that NTLDR is missing.
>
> Does anyone know how to create a bootable NTFS compact flash card or if it's
> even possible ?
>
> --
> Jens Søe Christiansen

Jens,

Besides trying to format the card *on the target device* booted under XP Pro or WinPE,
your best bet would be using CF card manufacturer provided utilities to partition and format the card.

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Regards,
KM

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a CF card with NTFS booting my XPe platform. When I
> power up my board, I get the error that NTLDR is missing.
>
> Does anyone know how to create a bootable NTFS compact flash card or if it's
> even possible ?
>
> --
> Jens Soe Christiansen