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

It is by design that XPe is incapable of formating a CF marked as removable
into a bootable state? thats a bug!

Yes I can get the CF into a bootable state using a WinPE boot disk.
But we do not have a licence to distribute a WinPE boot disk with the product.
It is not possible to get an XPe Boot CD to format a CF disk and make it
bootable.
This means that I cannot create a recovery CD using XPe...


"Andy Allred [MS]" wrote:

> What bug in XP/Win2k are you referring to? Is the CF marked as removable
> media? If so then this is by design. Searching the newsgroup archives has
> many explanations of how to get your CF in a state where it's bootable.
>
> Andy
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> "Stormblade" <Stormblade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> > 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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