Re: Anyone tried running MCE from Compact Flash

Also of note..

This article "Why can't I install Windows on my USB drive?"
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/04/15/113811.aspx

But CF cards are basically IDE in a new wrapper, so it opens a very
interesting thought if you were to use an IDE to CF adapter thus avoiding
the pitfalls of USB based reinitialization if the CF card was on that bus.

5GB CF on an IDE bus might be nice.. But am I remembering correctly that CF
memory has a limited (albeit high) number of rewrites? The paging and temp
files might kill that unless they were on another drive.

Diane

"stephenpatrick" <stephenpatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Hi
>
> Just wondered if anyone managed to do this?
> If so, assume putting all "recorded media" on a separate HD (i.e.
> drive D), or possibly even a network drive.
> I see the "installed footprint" on my MCE machine drive C is about
> 3.5Gbytes.
> All my recorded TV, pics and music are on another drive (D).
>
> With some "careful pruning" (deleting all sorts of help files, other
> stuff) it might be possible to reduce this to fit a 2Gbyte compact
> flash.
>
> Anyone got any thoughts?
>
> Regards
>
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