CF ADPT-7 (compact flash IDE load)

[Guest]

Hi,

I want to boot Windows XP Embedded from Compact flash, thats connected to a
CF/IDE adapter.

But I get the following message "Disk Error"
The partition (FAT32) is active on the Compact flash.

Does anyone have any idea's clues or anything about booting from a CF
(connected to a IDE port)???

thanks
Peter Lawlor

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Who is the CF card manufacturer?
When you prepare the CF card did you format with MS-DOS and run
Bootprep.exe?
Did you try booting to MS-DOS, if that doesn't work than you might want to
try a different CF card. http://www.seanliming.com/flashhelp.html

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit.

 

[Guest]

The CF: Kingston, and the 'CF->IDE' board: Mesa electronics.
I couldn't do a MS-DOS format on the device.
1, /s does not exist for Windows XP anymore.
2, you can't select "create msdos disk" from the right click menu.

But I did manage to get it to to work, by running "fdisk /mbr 2" (after
finding out what disk number it is) in the dos mode from a floppy, which I
tried to do it in GUI, but then crashed the CMD.

But yeah, It's now working, on my mini-itx board.

Thanks anyway

Peter