Re: Booting from Compact Flash?

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If you use a USB to CF adapter, you can use UFDPREP.EXE to prepare a CF card. UFDPREP.EXE only see the USB devices as a flash and doesn't know it is a CF card in the end. Just a little trick using this tool. Save time having to boot to DOS and use FDISK, FORMAT, and BOOTPREP.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"KA Kueh" <KAKueh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3A760D7B-F9DD-4AD7-944A-3A3548E9B174@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear all,

Thanks for the many suggestions. I am looking a the best and easiest way to
prepare a CF card. What I am looking for is to be able to do the whole
process via Windows XP. I know I am asking for might be too much but please
do point me to a step by step method. Thank you.

Regards,
Kueh.

"KA Kueh" wrote:

Dear all,

I have build a prototype system and copied the files to a CF card that was
formated with NTFS. The CF card is connected on the target PC via a IDE to
CF adaptor. What I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor on the top
left hand corner after post boot. What did I do wrong?. My question is :

1) How do I prepare the CF to be bootable with NTFS file system?.
2) Is there any specific brand of CF that I must buy to get the system to
boot
via the IDE to CF adaptor?

Thanks.

Regards,
Kueh.



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