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HELP! with win98 on a 128CF...almost working
HELP! with win98 on a 128CF

New MessageHELP! with win98 on a 128CF...almost working (modified 0 times) billman311
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Ok....here is what i got,

I got my IA-1 to boot to the CF card, I tried with a 8meg card loaded with DOS. And it worked fine.

I took my trusty Stylistic 1,000 and loaded Win98 with 98lite on the ATA 340meg HD. Windows works fine. I trimmed it down to 91 Meg! So I put a 128meg CF into a PCMCIA adapter in slot 1 and used XXCOPY.exe (c:\xxcopy c:\ d:\ /Clone) It made a perfect clone! I took out the ATA drive and put the adapter in and booted it as C: ........windows loaded just fine and worked great!

Then I took the 128meg CF card with my 98lite windows OS and put it in the IA-1. It pulled up the splash serene, then said "the following file is missing or corrupted: WIN.COM" & "COMMAND.COM" SO i thought I would just recopy those file to the CF. But when I put the CF back into the stylistic 1,000 and read the drive....every thing was F@#ked up!!!! File names changed....missing files....new files that didn't do anything....and all kinds of mumbo jumbo! Its like the IA-1 chewed up the info on the CF and spit it back out.

So if anyone has ANY ideas....or comments, please help me!?


PS. i did this about a dozen times now ...and same thing every time!

11-13-2001 15:57:36

New MessageRE:HELP! with win98 on a 128CF...almost working (modified 0 times) keith721
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billman311:

ranman and bballctaulbee (and finally me, who didn't read far enough...) found that Windoze FDISK and FORMAT commands tend to make the CF a FAT-12 device, just like a floppy drive. they even did that to my 256 MB CF card! use Ranish Partition Manager to change it to a FAT-16 device, and this might just clear up. you're right at the point that i'm trying to achieve this week, between work and off-site training, i haven't had time to get this far. but, i can definitely tell you, Ranish Partition Manager (v2.40 or higher) will likely save you some headaches...

hope this helps!!
keith721

11-13-2001 18:12:40

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