Compact Flash Problem

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Richard

Not Directly XPe releated but sorta since XPe is going on the flash.

Weird problem. On my XP Pro machine I tried to copy a new image to my CF
and it states it's an invalid drive. So I go to fdisk it. It shows the
full partition. I delete it. I then go to create a new partition and it
tells me that there already is a partition that takes the entire size. I
tried rebooting between steps even. So pretty much, I have not been able to
delete the partition.
I also tried booting from dos on the target and running fdisk with no luck.
However I can format it fine.

Is my CF going bad? I've been able to do this in the past with no problem.

Richard
 
Richard,

This is fixed disk, right?
Try wiping first sector clean on XP Prof.

Use:
diskpart
select disk x
clean ----- command
Click to expand...

I don't think that your CF is going bad since this problem is related so sector 0 that is written only by fdisk or disk manager,
ewfinit and not during the xpe runtime.

Let us know of results,

Regards,
Slobodan

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No, it's standard removable CF.
I'll give that a shot today. Thanks for the tips.

Slobodan Brcin (eMVP) said:
Richard,

This is fixed disk, right?
Try wiping first sector clean on XP Prof.

Use:
diskpart

I don't think that your CF is going bad since this problem is related so
Click to expand...
sector 0 that is written only by fdisk or disk manager,
 
Richard,

I asked about removable or fixed, because you can't use Disk Manager of removable disks :(

If you have some diskeditor programs you can zero first sector by yourself, or write few line of code to do that.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
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