Re: creating a system disk
From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 09/26/05
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:45:55 -0500
How To Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305595&sd=tech
DOS NTFS boot disk to access NTFS partitions in Windows XP
http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm
-- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "J Garcia" wrote: | First, pardon my post if this is the wrong place but this seems like an | issue with disk security. | | Second - the issue: | | We do some development where our host computer in running Windows XP Pro | (SP2). Our target device is a DOS based system. The target device boots from | a compact flash disk which loads up as drive C: In the past, we would use a | machine running Windows 98 to format and make the flash disk bootable. How | we did this is important to know - | | We have an "image" of what the flash disk should look like. This image is | stored on the host computer. We use a flash card reader and plug it is a USB | port. We go into the "DOS" directory so that we can execute the format.exe | and/or sys.exe programs explicitly from our purchased (and liscenced) DOS | compatible system. We get the warning that something trying to write to boot | sector (antivirus I think posts the warning). We click continue anyways. | Once this is done, we do an xcopy of the "image" to comple setting up the | flash disk. | | Having said that, we would like to get rid of the Windows 98 machine and do | the same thing with the XP machine. However, when we attempt the sys | portion, we get a "16 bit MS-DOS subsystem" error that says "An application | attempted to directly access the hard disk, which cannot be supported..." We | select ignore but still get a error indicating cannot get drive | specifications. | | I'm guessing that it a "breach" of security. Is there a way to allow us to | format and create a bootable flash disk as if it were an 'A' drive diskette? | | I hope this makes sense. | | Thanks,
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