Doing preparation of CFs automated?

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Hi!

For our XPe image we prepare our CFs in some special way, what is time
consuming and annoying.
We use a PC that is booting from a CD into DOS.
Our CF is set to fixed disk, the partition is removed, and a smaller
partition for the EWF is created and set active, then the CF is
formatted as bootable. First and last jobs are already batched, but
this does not work with fdisk.
So I am looking for a solution thet can do the whole thing in one job,
preferrably without reboots and with no or small user interaction.
The problem ist, that it seems mandatory to boot from CD because FDISk
only can handle the first harddisk on the IDE bus what is our CF. And
we run in some trouble with some LBA mode when trying to do the whole
task with some USB card reader or similar...

Any ideas how I can find a fool proof solution to prepare those card?
It is ridiculous that an engineer has to look after this stuff, just
to ensure that nothing goes wrong :-)

Thank you very much, and with best regards

Ralph.
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