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

Stormblade,

Well.. I feel you pain but this is how XPe tools now work.
In general you would want to contact manufacturer of CF card to get the right partition and format tools from them.
I'd love if Microsoft creates some more reliable tools to format any CF on the market and make it bootable on particular target.

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Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.


>
> > > 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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