> I tried responding to your query via our blog yesterday but you did not
> provide an e-mail address, i did respond to your web site's 'public' e-mail
> though.
>
> Be sure to follow the USB Boot steps in the xpehelp.chm, the procedure is
> not fully baked yet and requires some manual intervention on your part when
> building the configuration and manually disabling conflicting components.
>
> If you follow the steps to disable appropriate components after you get past
> step 4, you can build your runtime with the USB Boot 2.0 components, drop it
> onto your key and boot the full image. If you get an error 7B and have the
> USB Boot components (not likely based on our tests), then NTOSKRNL is not
> seeing the DOK (but the BIOS did). If this happens then your NTDETECT did
> not pass the DOK drive parameters to NTOSKRNL. To verify that this is or is
> not the problem, replace NTDETECT.COM with USBNTD.CHK (rename it to
> NTDETECT.COM). The checked version will output USB DOK'S found and their
> geometry.
>
> --
> Andy
>
> Check out the Embedded team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "Sondre - MSFT Regional Director"
> discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4FFFF297-DF8C-41A6-A5E1-9414E93220DB@microsoft.com...

>>I didn't know of formatufd.exe so thanks for mentioning. I have previously
>> used other alternatives to format the USB device as bootable.
>>
>> Now I'm trying to boot using USB device on a Dell Optiplex GX620 machine
>> and
>> it starts loading Windows XP (shows the loading screen) .. and after a
>> while
>> I hit a bluescreen (doesn't even come close to a full boot-up).
>>
>> STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF789E524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)
>>
>> The same machine boots fine using a standard SATA drive, and I built the
>> image using the exact same machine.
>>
>>
>> "Bing.Chen" wrote:
>>

>>> Dear Darren,
>>>
>>> FP2007 has its own format tool, formatufd.exe.
>>>
>>> It will take over the format job.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Bing Chen
>>> Advantech Co., Ltd.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> "Darren Twiss" discussions.microsoft.com>
>>> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:65746844-CCC9-4B59-AD06-C6F9D1FB0AEA@microsoft.com...

>>>> Sondre,
>>>>
>>>> I haven't tried the USB boot yself yet. But the 'Disk Error' genarlly
>>>> points
>>>> to the format of geometry of the disk.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Is the USB key FAT16 - if so you will have to go through the
>>>> 'BootPrep.exe' process.
>>>>
>>>> 2. If your usb key is FAT32 then you may like to try booting the
>>>> machine
>>>> from a win 98 cdrom and try formatting the usb key on the device. Our
>>>> experience is that XPe likes it's booot device to be formatted on the
>>>> target.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Darrem
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Darren Twiss
>>>> Embiam Ltd.
>>>> Embedded Software Systems
>>>> www.embiam.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Sondre" wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> I'm trying to use the new "USB 2.0 Boot" feature/component (in the
>>>>> Feature
>>>>> Pack 2007) but unable to get it working. My hardware just says "Disk
>>>>> error"
>>>>> when I start up my PC.
>>>>>
>>>>> The motherboard is a VIA EPIA-SP8000EG, EDEN/800Mhz, with a TwinMOS
>>>>> PC3200
>>>>> DDR-DIMM 1024MB.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is nothing other than VGA kabel, USB mouse, PS/2 keyboard
>>>>> connected
>>>>> to
>>>>> the motherboard.
>>>>>
>>>>> My USB device is a Corsair Flash Voyager 4096MB USB2.0 13/19MB sec.
>>>>>
>>>>> Motherboard discovers the USB device in the BIOS and allows me to
>>>>> choose
>>>>> it
>>>>> in boot priority, i've also successfully booted from the USB device
>>>>> using
>>>>> Windows 98 boot disk file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a guideance, blog post, or anything like that, that shows how
>>>>> to
>>>>> utilize the new USB boot feature? I've been waiting for this for quite
>>>>> a
>>>>> while and really want it to work.

>>>
>>>
>>>

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