Making Flash drive bootable

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Venkat

Previously I've had success with simply copying the run-time image to
the Flash, then using the DISKPART utility in Windows XP Professional
to set the partition on the Flash drive as "Active".
Then I boot using the NT bootloader from the harddisk and choose to
boot XP Embedded from the Flash drive.

This has been working no problem.

But just now, it has stopped working. I've been formatting,
adding/deleting data from the disk and I'm not sure if I've done
something to make the disk not bootable.

I can read/write to the disk no problem from Windows XP Professional
(running off the harddisk), which makes it seem as though the Flash
disk is fine. But maybe it's been damaged, I'm not sure

Can anyone suggest anything?

Thanks!
 
Venkat,

Switch to DOS and use partitioning and formatting tools from there. Use fdisk and format tools. Make sure you do the disk
partitioning and formatting on the target device.
 
KM,

I'm using an embedded PC that doesn't have a floppy drive or cd drive,
so I can't boot to DOS (unless there's another way?). I read in one of
your previous posts to try Paragon Disk Manager -- I downloaded version
6 but none of the functions work in the demo. I found version 5.5 and
tried formatting the disk with NTFS and setting the partition Active,
but it still is unable to boot.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help
 
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