Will XPe boot from removable media (CF) ?

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DJ

I would like to boot a CF card (removable, sick of setting to fixed
disk) from the secondary IDE.

Question: Is it possable?

With my setup the bios see's the CF but doesn't think it's bootable.
The CF is Fat32 formatted so I don't have to use bootprep.
 
The CF is Fat32 formatted so I don't have to use bootprep.

You must format if from DOS on your target computer.
Also for any FAT you must use bootprep :-(

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Since bootprep patches PBR I do not see reason why not.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Just tried it, doesn't like it. Bootprep say's it must be a active
partion. Fdisk say's it can only set partions on drive 1 active.
What a circle of problems.
 
Hi DJ,

Fortunately this problem can be easily solved by putting CF temporarily on development machine and setting it active.
It will not change CF geometry already written on disk.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Hi DJ,
I have an XPe image on 512 MB CF. To prepare CF I do this step:
* Create a bootable MS DOS floppy disk (or you can use Win 98 start up
floppy disk);
* Copy fdisk.exe, format.exe and bootprep.exe on floppy;
* Insert floppy and CF on your pc or development machine;
* Run bios setup and autodetect IDE, save options and exit from bios;
* Boot on A:\, run fdisk, delete all partition in the CF and restart PC;
* Boot on A:\ , run fdisk, create a primary dos partition and restart PC;
* Boot on A:\, format CF partition like "A:\format c:" then copy
bootprep.exe in CF partition, move to it and run bootprep.exe.
* Remove CF and put it in TD machine;
* Run CMD command and execute CONVERT <CF DRIVE>: /fs:ntfs
* Copy your XPE image in CF and enjoy it on device
 
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