newbie needs help for booting from CF

[Guest]

Hello

My CF is installed as the Primary IDE Master. I have tried to configure it to boot, as described in the documentation but with no success. The best I can get is:
“NTLDR is missingâ€

What am I doing

1. Partition and format the CF (FAT16).
2. Run Bootprep.

Here the things get complicated, because:
a. Bootprep shows a slightly different report: the active partition starts on track 0. I think this should be ok.
b. Bootprep actually does not destroy the data on the CF. I was expecting to loose everything on there.

Assuming the part with Bootprep was okay (which I doubt), I am a little confused here. On one hand, the documentation says right after BootPrep the CF boots. But there is no info about the OS files. So I’ve tried in two ways:

1. Run Bootprep and then copy the OS files (xcopy <source> <destination> /H /C /S /E /D)
2. Copy the OS files and the run BootPrep


Both lead to the same nt loader missing.

I have also tried to convert this FAT partition to NTFC (using convert). Here I get the message “Cannot Convert FAT Volumesâ€

Any suggestions?

 

[Bing.Chen]

Dear Yalos,

There is an easy way to do this.

1. Format your CF card in Windows.

2. Copy all image files to CF.

3. Boot with CF.



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Best Regards,
Microsoft MVP for Windows Embedded
Bing Chen
Advantech Co., Ltd.

Hello

My CF is installed as the Primary IDE Master. I have tried to configure it

to boot, as described in the documentation but with no success. The best I
can get is:

?œNTLDR is missing??

What am I doing

1. Partition and format the CF (FAT16).
2. Run Bootprep.

Here the things get complicated, because:
a. Bootprep shows a slightly different report: the active partition starts

on track 0. I think this should be ok.

b. Bootprep actually does not destroy the data on the CF. I was expecting to loose everything on there.

Assuming the part with Bootprep was okay (which I doubt), I am a little

confused here. On one hand, the documentation says right after BootPrep the
CF boots. But there is no info about the OS files. So I?™ve tried in two
ways:

1. Run Bootprep and then copy the OS files (xcopy <source> <destination> /H /C /S /E /D)
2. Copy the OS files and the run BootPrep


Both lead to the same nt loader missing.

I have also tried to convert this FAT partition to NTFC (using convert).

Here I get the message ?œCannot Convert FAT Volumes??

 

[Guest]

Hi Chen

I've done this already, but I get "No system or disk error". The question here is how to make it bootable. And I far I can see, the format from Windows is not enough. What should I do next?

Thanks,
Yalos

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Yalos,

Boot to DOS on target device.
Use dos:
1. fdisk, make partition and set it active.
2. use format.
3. use bootprep.
4. Copy all files including ntldr. from your XPe build folder.
5. Try booting.

1-3 must be done on target device.

Best regards,
Slobodan

Hi Chen

I've done this already, but I get "No system or disk error". The question here is how to make it bootable. And I far I can see,

the format from Windows is not enough. What should I do next?