Re: Compact Flash Problem

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From: Richard (rwnospamskinner_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 05:32:42 -0500

No, it's standard removable CF.
I'll give that a shot today. Thanks for the tips.

"Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" <sbrcin@ptt.yu> wrote in message
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> Richard,
>
> This is fixed disk, right?
> Try wiping first sector clean on XP Prof.
>
> Use:
> diskpart
> > select disk x
> >clean ----- command
>
> I don't think that your CF is going bad since this problem is related so
sector 0 that is written only by fdisk or disk manager,
> ewfinit and not during the xpe runtime.
>
> Let us know of results,
>
> Regards,
> Slobodan
>
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> "Richard" <rwnospamskinner@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> > Not Directly XPe releated but sorta since XPe is going on the flash.
> >
> > Weird problem. On my XP Pro machine I tried to copy a new image to my
CF
> > and it states it's an invalid drive. So I go to fdisk it. It shows the
> > full partition. I delete it. I then go to create a new partition and
it
> > tells me that there already is a partition that takes the entire size. I
> > tried rebooting between steps even. So pretty much, I have not been
able to
> > delete the partition.
> > I also tried booting from dos on the target and running fdisk with no
luck.
> > However I can format it fine.
> >
> > Is my CF going bad? I've been able to do this in the past with no
problem.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
>
>

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