Re: Clone CF card... does not boot

g18c@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Hi, i have a image on a compact flash card (it happens to be xp pro but
this imho isnt important to this post) which i would like to clone to
other drives.

Now i have my development machine, took the source compact flash card,
and 2 compact flash cards that i wanted to copy. I know the source card
boots and works fine.

I copied the source card to the two other compact flash cards, and one
works and the other does not. All 3 cards are the same manufacturer and
the same size (1GB), however none of the card geometories match... is
this the cause of my problem? Is the fact i am copying from my
development machine and not the target hardware the cause? I thought
all BIOSs would read the geometories from the disc as the disc defines
how big itself is, and surely that is fixed by the disc and all BIOSs
should report the same?

The clone part works, i can see it copied the data fine, it just doesnt
boot (well one of the two destination discs boots, the other one
doesn't)! This is very weird.

I am really stuck with this and have tried to learn about geometories
but i admit i am getting very confused. Any help much apperciated.

TIA

Chris

First Stupid Question That Must Be Asked: Are you sure the one that doesn't boot is marked active?
Second stupid question: What's the actual message when it doesn't
Third stupid question: How are you actually doing the clone?
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