11 Jan
2008
11 Jan
'08
4:09 a.m.
On 11/01/2008 01:20, Chris M wrote:
I'm stumped. All I have to work with is a WinXP
laptop
that doesn't boot off anything special in particular.
The CD drive yes, but that's about it. I once was able
to make bootable CD's w/early versions of Norton, but
I doubt that would work for a compact flash card.
You can't boot an OS from a CompactFlash card in a card reader slot.
You have to have it in an IDE-to-CF adapter (which is a simple passive
device, there's no electronics involved) connected to your HDD
controller, so the computer sees the CF card as an IDE drive. If you
set it up that way, then you should be able to format it as bootable.
You certainly can using Linux, and it should be possible using DOS
booted from a floppy. Of course, this might be problematic on a laptop!
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Pete Peter Turnbull
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University of York