XPe on CF card

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I made some Configurations for some PC with normal IDE drives and all works
fine. But now i tried to make a configuraion for a CF card (SanDisk) and i
only get "no Disk drive"
Whats wrong?
i heard about first run the image on a normal IDE disk. But why is this
necessarily?

thanks
 
I made some Configurations for some PC with normal IDE drives and all
works
fine. But now i tried to make a configuraion for a CF card (SanDisk) and i
only get "no Disk drive"
Whats wrong?
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I can only guess.
1. You need to mark CF as nonremovable.
2. You need to use IDE reader, not USB.
i heard about first run the image on a normal IDE disk. But why is this
necessarily?
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Because if you use FBA on CF it will wear off and stop working if you
install more than 10000+ times on it :)

Seriously, it is faster to run FBA on HDD there should be nothing else than
should stop you.


Regards,
Slobodan
 
first thanks for your reply

It´s a onboard CF slot and the Bios identify it correctly as primary master

now i will try to mark it nonremovable. hope it helps
 
Also when you do that, mark partition as active.

Micha said:
first thanks for your reply

It´s a onboard CF slot and the Bios identify it correctly as primary master

now i will try to mark it nonremovable. hope it helps


and
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If you're planning to use EWF (which you should be) you'll
need to have the card marked non-removable (sandisk will
be able to send you a utility to do this, contact Tuan
Dinh Hoang, (e-mail address removed)) as otherwise you can't
have more than one partition - and EWF needs an additional
partition.
You can run EWF without, which Slobodan has posted about
several times, but if you do, you can't disable the filter
without committing changes made.
The wearing out of the card is not as much of an issue for
FBA with industrial devices, but some people some time ago
were reporting that some devices were destroyed when FBA
was run on them just once. Leaving an image to run on CF
without EWF however *is* asking for trouble.
That said, did you run tap.exe on your target device with
the CF attached? It will probably identify as a different
device to your hard drive (though they'll both usually
show up as 'disk drive' as there are at least three
components called 'disk drive')
 
ok it´s booting
and try to write at 0x00000c
(or something else in this way)

but this i will look for tomorrow.

thanks
 
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