Re: XPe and USB Flash memory Stick (Bootprep)

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From: Dave August (august_at_NOSPAMacmesi.com)
Date: 08/08/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 18:03:27 -0700

Chris..

Just so you know... Good old Win2K WILL format USB memory as NTFS and yes
XP will happily read them. And yes I understand all the potential problems
associated with an NTFS formatted 'removable media'... I just always have to
laugh at Micro$soft, I have a USB hard disk that XP will happily format
NTFS, in the long run what's the difference?... And yes folks I come from a
DDK background so I 'grok' the 'removable device' and 'removable media' flag
foolishness....

As a further FWIW, I have hacked a filter driver that will fool XP into
thinking a USB memory stick isn't 'removable media', but is a 'removable
device'... LOL... "oh what tangled tales we weave, when we plan to first
deceive"

And don't you just love the fact that 'removable media' can't have multiple
patitions... now isn't that a real smart idea... I can quite easyily mount
multiple partitions on a USB memory device on my Linux box, and also have no
problems on Mac's...

Dave

"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A7E410FB-2BD7-40D7-B67F-72A88DD4427B@microsoft.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I have a slight problem. Im trying to get XPe to boot off of a USB
> memory stick (512 meg). I have copied the XPe image over and thats all
fine
> and dandy, but of course when I try to boot off a USB device (by setting
> "first boot device" in bios to "USB hard drive") it will not boot because
> there are no boot files on the drive (ntldr, etc). So I find out I need
to
> use bootprep...GREAT. One problem...bootprep only works in dos....and dos
> does not support USB devices.... so of course I cant run bootprep on my
USB
> memory stick....Can anyone point me in a good direction? Any help would
be
> much appreciated.
> PS. The memory stick is formated as FAT32 if that matters, it cannot be
> formated as NTFS.
> THANKS,
> Chris

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