deploying on NTFS?

[jj3000]

I have a compact flash card. I have successfully used FAT before.

Now I want to put it on NTFS.

What I have done is to boot the device (SBC) using dos boot disk and
fdisk created a partition, then I put in the compact flash reader
(USB) on my PC and formated it NTFS, in windows 2000. I copied my
binary files to it.

When I put it back on the device, it says NTLDR is missing, press
control-Alt-del to reboot.

Maybe I ask what I am doing wrong? My understanding is that I do not
need to use bootprep.exe for NTFS. I tried to create the partition
with W2K diskmanager but it didn't read the disc on the SBC because it
probably used the wrong geometry.

 

[Robert]

Did you check your build to make sure NTLoader was there?

Robert

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi jj,

You must have CF connected to IDE channel on your SBC all the time while you partition and format your CF.

So either you will do it from XP on your SBC, or you are stuck with DOS fdisk,format, bootprep.

Also check if you copied ntldr.

Problem why on some devices you must format CF disks is because disk geometry seen by different BIOSes is usually different.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Sean Gahan]

If the NTDR is on a compressed partition you will get the same error.

Regards,

Sean Gahan