Re: boot problem

R.Demandt,

Ok. Good.
Glad we're on the right track fixing the issue :-)

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Regards,
KM

I think the problem is solved. I alwasy used to format the disk on my
development (an other) pc. Now I formatted it on the same pc (under ERD
commander). It all works!!

Thanks for your help!
P.S. The harddrive was 20GB, I'm sorry for the error.

"KM" wrote:

R.Demandt,

Did you partition and formatted the drive on the same HP laptop under XP Pro?
The same laptop is your XPe target, right?

Also, numbers are a little bit confusing. Earlier you said you had 40GB drive.

Boot size specified in TD will have nothing to do with ntldr boot.

If you succeeded with DOS tools (putting FAT FS), did you try copy ntldr, ntdetect and boot.ini files to the prepared and
formatted
partition? If so, can you see the loader menu showing at the boot? (assuming non zero timeout is set in boot.ini)

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Regards,
KM

I am running on a Hp evo n620c laptop with the newest bios version and the
harddrive is a 20GB toshiba (5400RPM). I used windows diskmanager (part of
winxp pro) to format the disk and set it active. I has a 20GB large NTFS
partition.
I also tried installing wixp pro and making it bootable from dos, both
methodes worked.

"KM" wrote:

R.Demandt,

There is no such thing exists like "windows embedded disk".
You just have to make the disk bootable for ntldr.

What hardware you are running on? What hard drive?
How exactly you partitioned the drive? What tools you used? Did you partition and format the drive on the target machine to
set
up
correct disk geometry parameters?
Did you try make it bootable for DOS? (use fdisk for DOS)

Did you try installing XP Pro on the same hard drive on target machine? Does it boot there?

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Regards,
KM


No the ntldr menu isn't shown, and windows itself isn't loading. I think my
computer doesn't understand how to boot the windows embedded disk.
Does anyone know a solution?

"KM" wrote:

R.Demandt,

No, I don't think you forgot any step to make the disk bootable.

I guess I am not understanding what error you are seeing. Do you know what OS level issues the error (nt loader, kernel,
etc.?)?
Does it show up on a text mode screen or is there any GUI?

Try adding /SOS and /BOOTLOG switches to the ArcPath in boot.ini file on the tagret disk.
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721)

If you set non zero timeout in boot.ini, can you see the ntldr menu?

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Regards,
KM

I formatted the 40GB disk as an NTFS partition, set it active and copied the
files from the build to the disk. Is there a step I forgot?

"KM" wrote:

R.Demandt,

Sounds like you're having problems with your target storage.
Did you prepare, partition, format it? Did you make it bootable?

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Regards,
KM

It happens before the FBA starts (so the log file, won't help). I get the
message:
"Write Error - press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart"

KM" wrote:

R.Demandt,

What exactly the error and at what boot phase you see it?
Also, you may want to take a look at \windows\fba\fbalog.txt log.

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Regards,
KM

When first booting xpe (with fba). I keep getting a write error, and the
system won't boot. Does anyone know what causes this problem?????

Thanks for any response,
R.Demandt

















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