Re: Problem with 512MB Partition and XPe

From: Sean Liming \(eMVP\) (seanl_at_seanliming.com.NOSPAM)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:17:51 -0800

Is this 512MB partition on your note book a second partition? If so, you
will need to change the configuration settings and check the boot.ini file
on the first partition.

Regards,

Sean Liming (eMVP)
Managing Director
SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions

www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Author: Windows XP Embedded Advanced and Windows NT Embedded Step-by-Step

"M. Fernahl" <MFernahl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:84EC2D2D-022B-4DA9-9C44-8451629FC36B@microsoft.com...
> The XPe runtime that I am creating must run on a 512MB CF. Since I do not
> have this CF yet I try to simulate it with a Notebook HD that is formatted
> with a 512MB partition.
>
> I build the XPe on drive D: of my workstation. Then I connect the
> partitioned and formatted Notebook HD to the second IDE channel and copy
> all
> XPe image files on this HD. Then I connect the Notebook HD to my target
> system and let XPe uncompress.
>
> Thsi works fine as long as the Notebook HD has a bigger partition than
> 1GB.
> If i make a 512MB partition either NTFS or FAT32, XPe starts not from this
> HD.
>
> So, what is wrong? Only the partition size?
>
> Is there a trick, to make a 512MB partition and copy XPe to it?
>

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