Formatting difficulties
- From: Cathy01020@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 15 Apr 2007 00:45:35 -0700
Hi, I have come across a compact flash which seems unable to boot XPe.
The SanDisk Extreme IV gives me "disk error" upon boot.
I have tried the following commands, as well as many variations..
these have worked for me with every other compact flash I have tested.
I am able to boot via USB using the USB 2.0 boot component. I have
also set the compact flash to fixed disk mode as well as the original
removable, neither with any success.
1. fdisk /mbr
fdisk (create, set active)
reboot
format D: /S
copy bootprep.exe D:
reboot, physically remove C:
bootprep /dC
2. XP CD (all of these many times!)
format C: with NTFS, quick
format C: with FAT, quick
format C: with NTFS
format C: with FAT
3. diskpart
4. the above fdisk method, then convert D: /FS:NTFS
I tried the previously mentioned method of copying over only boot.ini
and ntldr onto the compact flash. This gives me the same error. When I
remove ntldr, I get "ntldr is missing".
This leads me to come to the conclusion that this card either cannot
boot XPe, or I have a bad card. The problem is, the card can be
accessed on any of the OS without error. Has anybody else tried this
card? I am willing to try anything at this point..
.
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