I guess you want to see this too -
Here - though it only mentions the second partition HD-HBU2, not the boot partition ACRONIS BOOT ??
I have now managed to create the active partition you suggested in #49. The Vista system just ignored it - no surprise there - but trying to boot...
Before I go down that road, to use PM8 I normally reboot into the XP system on the Vista comp and use it from there. It was previously said to...
I'm intending to try that. Don't know whether it was really necessary but I have already used PM8 to create 2GB of unallocated space at the start...
Thanks for the responses. I have tried setting all the boot devices as the flash, and I have also tried disabling every device but the flash....
It's OK, she's forgiven me ;) As attached There are no messages of any sort. It is set to boot from flash, but just goes on to boot from hard...
Both the flash drive and the external drive are named in the boot list.
I must give it to you guys, models of patience. I'll come back later with answers to Mudcrab's questions about the BIOS, but one more go at...
Is this useful re the above?
Booting from my VistaPE disk here is the hex dump of the first sector I can see - sector 63. It seems 0-62 are hidden?
Easy you guys, you're talking to a Plug 'n Play guy here :D I'll have a go though. Thnx
Here we go. This time the flash drive is after following MudCrab's guide for creating a bootable flash drive. Sad to say, nothing has changed,...
Got a 15 day trial version of Disk Director. I have attached the Properties of the flash drive. Is this what you need to see?
That'll be tomorrow. Gotta go!
Don't have that. ATI 11, Ghost 9, PM8, that's about it.
It doesn't look promising. Tried the first of MudCrab's empty partitions and then the file copying and bootsect.exe bit but the response is...
okay, I'll have a go. Might not be tonight but I'll be back with the results.
I formatted it from Vista, FAT32
The partition is Primary, Active but it doesn't boot and just passes on to the next boot device. It doesn't boot in an older XP PC here either -...
Your instructions clearly worked, but despite having everything correctly set in BIOS it seems my MD8818 just doesn't like booting from flash. It...
4X would be worth the effort. I'll see if I can do it. Thanks :)
OT slightly, but is booting from a flash drive significantly faster than booting from a rescue disk or, as I do, a VistaPE disk? My VistaPE disk...
mmm......despite what I said in #3, it doesn't work for me either. Runs the cpu up to 100%, but nothing useful is happening, and need Task...
Why is that then? Don't you trust ATI? ;D But I, someone who has every reason not to trust ATI, installed SP1 yesterday morning and everything...
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