Sandisk Ultra 2 4GB CF ....XPE

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Nabz

Dear All ,

I hope you will help me on this problem , I tried all the
things but all failed uptill now...
I am using Sandisk Ultra 2 4GB compact flash for booting windows XPE ,
Windows cannot boot from this compact flash and FBA does not run . it
hangs on Verifing DMI pool data ... and cursor blink on the next line.

but when this CF was Dos bootable it boot succusfully I run bootprep on
it ... no problem there.
after copying image on it above problem occur.

I tried FAT , FAT32 , and convert them NTFS but same result.

Is there any component I am missing is image ?
Is there maximum size problem for compact flash ?

I am realy puzled I hope u will provide me some guidence .

Best Regards

Nabz Malik
 
Nabz,

Here is what I've done to get a 2GB CF card to boot. Note that a few
things may be different as I don't have an IDE interface on my
development machine, but on the unit I have developing for.


1. Boot from the Floppy (I found that the Win98 one works
www.bootdisk.com or
http://www.troyedwards.com/downloads/BootDisks/boot98.exe) - You will
need to copy over bootprep to the floppy
2. Run FDISK
3. DO NOT enable LBA
4. Delete the Primary partition
5. Create a new Primary partition
6. Reboot
7. Boot from the Floppy
8. Format the C drive (format c:) (CF drive)
9. Run bootprep (Note: This will look like it freezes but it just
takes a while for the program to respond)
10. Power off the unit
11. Remove the CF Card
12. Place the CF Card into the PCMCIA Card Adapter
13. Insert into main computer with OS
14. Copy over the OS
15. Perform a safely remove hardware
16. Reinsert CF Card into Unit

Best of luck,

Dwayne
 
Hi Nabz,

Do you still get stuck at the verifying DMI pool data stage? Does
the bootprep complete successfully? Have you tried using a different
brand of CF or perhaps a 2GB? I'm using a SimpleTech 2GB CITCF2GBJ
card. The only other thing I can think of is that you may need to use
FAT 32 for a 4GB disk.

Dwayne
 
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