Re: What in the heck am I doing wrong? NTFS boot disk


> > Do I really have to format these drives from DOS in order to get them to
> > boot?
>
> You most likely have to (it sometimes veries on the BIOS, MB and HDD brands
> you use) to keep the right disk geometry factors.
>
> > This seems like a very strange situation...
>
> Well.. It is not. If you search MS KB database, you wil see that they
> recommend using DOS for preparing media for NT/2K/XP.
>
I have been banging my head against this one for ages now... In a product
which uses XPe, I have a requirement to be able to do a clean re-install of
the compact flash from a bootable CD, fine, make a bootable XPe disk for the
product which will format the CF and copy all the files to it... but this
doesn't work, formatting the CF in XPe makes a mess of the NTFS partition
header...
And MS say I have to use DOS to format... does that mean I have to pay for a
licence for DOS as well as a licence for XPe for each product, just to be
able to reinstall the XPe OS in the field????
All this because of a BUG in XPe (and XP/Win2k as well it seems), that makes
it incapable of formatting the CF properly.

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