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![]() When I push the F8 key during the early boot stages of my P4C800E-Dlx MB I see that I can select my desired boot device. This includes several "generic USB devices". And, as I continue to boot I see my "Generic" USB devices enumerated by BIOS and these appear to include the four CF (Compact Flash Card) type slots which are provided in my USB 2 Flash Card Reader. Now the question is, how do I come up with a bootable CF card from which I can attempt to boot? So far I have found that if I boot to a DOS floppy, none of the USB Flash card slots are seen from the A: prompt. That surprised me since I see what I believed to be the CF card slots enumerated on boot. When in WinXP, I can easily format my CF card as N: but the option to make N: bootable is grayed out. Clearly CF cards are not treated as floppy disks. Then I went to a DOS prompt in WinXP and entered the command a:\Sys A: N: in an attempt to transfer the system files from a bootable A: drive to my Compact Flash card N: I got the error message that a program in 16 bit is attempting to access a Hard Drive and will not be allowed .... then shutdown. Has anyone managed to successfully boot the P4C800E-Dlx MB from a USB device like a Compact Flash Card ... and if so, what did it take to yield your success? My biggest challenge appears to be: How do you make the CF type card bootable? Thanks for any help, ideas anyone can contribute. kda |
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