Preparing a new Hard Drive for embedded

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Oliver

This is a follow on from an earlier post about Recovery
CDs.

I am having trouble setting up a brand new hard drive for
XP Embedded. All the documentation says that you first
have to create a FAT32 file system and then convert to
NTFS. Has anyone managed to go straight to NTFS.

It seems to me that it only works if a disk has
previously had FAT32 on it.

Any help is apreciated.
 
Oliver,

If you have working XP also Win 2000 should behave in same manner (Have not
tried it on W2000 though).

You can use diskpart to clean disk partitions, and to partition disk and set
partition active.

format from Windows will make file system and partition boot record for both
file systems (FAT, NTFS).

No need for bootprep or some other way.


Regards,
Slobodan
 
Why then if I partition and format a brand new hard drive
does XP Embedded not boot? It does not even get as far as
reading ntldr!

All works fine on a drive that has normal XP previously
installed but not on a brand new hard drive.

Olie
 
Are you trying to do this from Win XP?
Have you set partition as active?

Use diskpart and format from command line. They are working for me.
Also Disk Management should work but I don't use it since it is easier to
use batch file to do the whole job.


Regards,
Slobodan
 
Sounds like your disk does not have a PBR. Did you mark the partition
active?
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