Help needed for 1st time boot image install

[Joseph Goldburg]

Hi All,

I have made a drive image and I can transfer it to my target hard drive.

If the target harddrive has bootable dos system on it.... how do
I set up the Master Boot record etc.?

How do I create a bootable image?

In what sequence do I do things?

Do I use Fdisk /MBR?

Do I use bootprep and FBA ... how?

Thanks in advance.


Regards
Joseph

 

[Mario Dambauer]

1) To mark the partition as primary use fdisk

2) if you use FAT, use bootprep and if you use NTFS bootprep is not
necessary...

Best Regards,
Mario

 

[Roy Hodgkinson]

Joseph,

Several options:

1. To just get the XPE image as bootable.
a. Install Windows XP on target partition as FAT32.
b. Boot DOS from network-capable floppy.
c. Format XP partition and copy XPE image to partition.
d. Disk boot will bring up XPE.

2. To use DOS boot partition to load XPE.
a. Run DOS Debug script to create Bootsect.dos on DOS
drive. (see http://www.bcpl.net/~dbryan/ntfs-dual-
boot.html)
b. Install Windows XP on target partition as FAT32.
c. Edit XP Boot.ini, save it, and copy it to DOS
partition.
d. Boot to DOS.
e. Format XP partition and copy XPE image to partition.
f. Copy Boot.ini and bootsect.dos to XPE partition.
g. Disk boot will allow you to boot to XPE or DOS.

3. Use DOS tools and the Symantec GHOST product.
a. Use Ghost to capture a copy of your XPE image.
b. Create disk MBR and partitions by installing XP.
c. Use Ghost to load XPE partition image onto XP
partition.

HTH, Roy

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Joseph,

In addition to what has been posted...

Winternal's Remote Recover can be used to prep the target drive and used to
transfer the image to the target drive. You have to contact Winternals
directly to purchase the program seperate from their other tools, but it is
worth it.

Regards,

Sean Liming
A7 Engineering
Author: Windows XP Embedded Advanced