Bootable compact flash?

lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
edited September 2005 in Hardware
I have this old 16MB CF card lying around, and I just disposed of my floppy drive (at least until my next XP reinstall :grumble:). About the only thing I used a floppy for was to boot, run ghost 2003, and backup my boot partition. I know I could use a bootable CD, but that is too easy, and I want this 16meg cf card to serve a purpose.. I guess its just for the cool factor :D

Basically, I want to make this CF card bootable, and dump the ghost executable there. My DFI board does recognize it at bootup, and it's in the 'Removable Devices' list for boot options.

Anyone know how I can get this thing bootable? XP does not allow me to format it as a dos startup disk. Is there some way to transfer a floppy image to a cf card perhaps?

Comments

  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited September 2005
    ive not done it with ghost, but acronis supports CF formating natively. I boot from my 1gig mem stick all the time to load images from the network onto new servers. Works like a charm.
  • TmodTmod
    edited September 2005
    Try this

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    Tmod
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited September 2005
    Awesome, thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know how it turns out :D
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