Re: XPe beginner needs help



Hi Richard,

I'm trying to get a bootable CD just including the bare essentials:-

How do people have their machines configured so they can do this?

Do you have an extra hard drive that you use to create the C:
partition on, then disable your main HDD to get this extra HDD to
boot so FBA can run?

I use an old hard drive (10GB) and connect it to my dev machine
using a USB HDD adaptor. This is my procedure:

1/ Create a single FAT32 partition on the drive of the size I want my
CD using Disk Management. In this case it is 90MB (My image is 60MB).
Mark the partition active. Make sure the rest of the drive is unpartitioned.

2/ Copy the image created by Target Designer to this partition.

3/ Use hd2iso.exe to create an iso on my dev machine.

4/ Burn the iso to a CD.

5/ Connect the hard drive to the target as primary master.

6/ Insert CD from step 4 in target.

7/ Disable "boot from CD" in the BIOS of target.

8/ Boot target and let FBA run. The CD will be accessed during
PNP phase of FBA. Target will reboot twice and come up with
the shell. Run ewfmgr c: and make sure EWF is disabled.

9/ Run etprp /all. The target will start to reboot. Pull the power
before it gets a chance to reboot.

10/ Move the hard drive back to the dev machine.

11/ Use hd2iso.exe to create the final iso on my dev machine.

12/ Burn to CD using Nero.

-Mike


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