How to make it boot

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From: Martin Müller (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:22:16 +0100

Hello,

I downloaded the XP-embedded evaluation version and after spending half a
day trying all versions of arc-paths (booting always says hal.dll is
missing) I somwhere saw a notice that the partition must be made bootable (I
installed a second hard drive for the image). But what I found then sounds
so strange that I can't believe.

I see something about booting into DOS and using DOS-format and fdisk and
bootprep.

First of all, how do I boot into DOS when I have XP?

And is this really the Microsoft way to build such a huge System like the
embedded Studio and then just missing a simple tool that writes a
bootsector?

In the help I found no article which describes exactly how to make a
(non-C:) drive bootable.

Tanks in advance for any tips!

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