Booting XP from a FlashCard/FlashMemory

Jamie

Jamie

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Lets say if someone has an 8GB Flashcard and put XP on it, would it be possible to boot from that?

Cheers,
Jamie
 
In theory yes. In practice if your machine is more than 18 months old or has an old BIOS you would more than likely struggle. The one exception to this is Compact Flash, which is completely pin-compatible with IDE - as long as you get an adapter to ping the pins up to the size of a regular IDE cable you can happily boot from a CF card - in fact a lot of network appliances (Firewalls, Security Gateways, Spam Filters) store their OS on a CF card and boot off it like a hard disk.
 
My friend bought a 'Sandisk Extreme III Compact Flash 8Gb' His mobo is new and he has a little problem: he wants to boot windows xp on it, and he uses an IDE-adapter . The Thing is, windows recognizes this as a removable device and will because of that it wont boot. as far as he thinks, the memory itself that tells the system that it is removable. so is this a big problem or is there a workaround for this?

Cheers,
Jamie
 
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