Preparing a new Hard Drive for embedded

This is a follow on from an earlier post about Recovery
CDs.

I am having trouble setting up a brand new hard drive for
XP Embedded. All the documentation says that you first
have to create a FAT32 file system and then convert to
NTFS. Has anyone managed to go straight to NTFS.

It seems to me that it only works if a disk has
previously had FAT32 on it.

Any help is apreciated.

Oliver,

If you have working XP also Win 2000 should behave in same manner (Have not
tried it on W2000 though).

You can use diskpart to clean disk partitions, and to partition disk and set
partition active.

format from Windows will make file system and partition boot record for both
file systems (FAT, NTFS).

No need for bootprep or some other way.


Regards,
Slobodan




"Oliver" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This is a follow on from an earlier post about Recovery
> CDs.
>
> I am having trouble setting up a brand new hard drive for
> XP Embedded. All the documentation says that you first
> have to create a FAT32 file system and then convert to
> NTFS. Has anyone managed to go straight to NTFS.
>
> It seems to me that it only works if a disk has
> previously had FAT32 on it.
>
> Any help is apreciated.

Why then if I partition and format a brand new hard drive
does XP Embedded not boot? It does not even get as far as
reading ntldr!

All works fine on a drive that has normal XP previously
installed but not on a brand new hard drive.

Olie

>-----Original Message-----
>Oliver,
>
>If you have working XP also Win 2000 should behave in

same manner (Have not

>tried it on W2000 though).
>
>You can use diskpart to clean disk partitions, and to

partition disk and set

>partition active.
>
>format from Windows will make file system and partition

boot record for both

>file systems (FAT, NTFS).
>
>No need for bootprep or some other way.
>
>
>Regards,
>Slobodan
>
>
>
>
>"Oliver" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

message

>news:080e01c3ae87$f6c305e0$a101280a@phx.gbl...

for

>
>
>.
>

Are you trying to do this from Win XP?
Have you set partition as active?

Use diskpart and format from command line. They are working for me.
Also Disk Management should work but I don't use it since it is easier to
use batch file to do the whole job.


Regards,
Slobodan


<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Why then if I partition and format a brand new hard drive
> does XP Embedded not boot? It does not even get as far as
> reading ntldr!
>
> All works fine on a drive that has normal XP previously
> installed but not on a brand new hard drive.
>
> Olie
>
>

> same manner (Have not

> partition disk and set

> boot record for both

> message

> for

Sounds like your disk does not have a PBR. Did you mark the partition
active?
-Anil[MS] This posting is provided "AS IS". It provides no warranties and
confers no rights.

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Why then if I partition and format a brand new hard drive
> does XP Embedded not boot? It does not even get as far as
> reading ntldr!
>
> All works fine on a drive that has normal XP previously
> installed but not on a brand new hard drive.
>
> Olie
>
>

> same manner (Have not

> partition disk and set

> boot record for both

> message

> for