Hello Alan:
It is difficult to load the boot sector to hard
disk drives under WindowsXP. There is an HP utility
which may allow you to partition and format your
compact flash device and install FreeDOS. Look for
SP27213.exe at ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp27001-27500.
There is another version, SP27608, which I haven't been
able to find except here:
http://h50178.www5.hp.com/support/PB137UA/more_info_local_17550.html
which does the same thing. These will DESTROY any data on
your USB stick, write a partition table, create a FAT or FAT32
partition, and install FreeDOS boot files and a FreeDOS boot
sector, from WindowsXP.
This utility MAY work for you. I've never tried a compact
flash card with it, but it works pretty well with USB
sticks in some cases. Also, you will need a computer with a
BIOS that will boot from your card as well.
Another option is to use SYSLINUX, memdisk, and a floppy disk
image, but that has problems, including that you may not be
able to read and write the memory stick after booting.
Good luck.
Mark Bailey
alan boey wrote:
Command? I have a system with only a HDD and a 256MB
CF card, plus USB ports. I had tried everything to
boot this system, from USB CD-ROM with bootable Win2k
CD, to USB flash drive, but nothing works. Even
plugging in the HDD to another PC and install doesn't
work (after replugging back to the system, Windows
fails to load, sigh...)
I'm planning to install FreeDOS into the CF from my
Win XP Pro laptop via PCMCIA card reader, and use it
to boot up this system so that i can install Win2K on
the HDD. I have been browsing through the net for few
days but has yet to find a way. Can anyone please
help?
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