Re: FAT32 compact flash boot drive

I know you might already have a solution, but just in case you don't....

If you put only the MBR on the CF card, that has an entry for the active
partition but you don't actually put the FAT32 partition on the card, what
error do you get?

My thinking here is trying to identfy if it is the BIOS loading of the MBR
that is choking or the MBR loading of the BPB that is the problem.

Also, when you say you convert a non working FAT32 card to NTFS, how do you
do this? bootprep or through windows disk management?

Ciao

"JudyL" <JudyL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:35446AC6-0FF8-4FFC-9F12-56BA8B67C0C1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You remember correctly - the problem is, after loading the image on the
card,
it won't boot and run FBA. The thing I find interesting is that it is only
on
FAT32 CF cards. I can take the non-booting FAT32 card, convert it to NTFS,
and it boots and runs FBA just fine. It's only that first FBA boot that
won't
work. If I build the image on a "regular" FAT32 (which works ok) then
ghost
that image to the CF card, the CF card will boot XPe correctly. Removable
FAT32 is the problem, apparently.

Judy


"Stuart Langley" wrote:

Secondly, I have been able to get the FBA process to run on a removable
CF
without problems, provided I have not attempted to distribute the image
over
more than one partition. The removable/fixed issue does not arise until
windows itself is up and running, and from memory your issue is at boot
time.



.

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