booting xp from CF

**me_ashman** · 11-04-08, 11:54 AM

Hi, I'm setting up a carputer and was thinking of using a compactflash card to boot from to decrease startup times and use a hdd for the rest of the programs/files. Is this viable for long term and easy to do?

**Baron** · 11-04-08, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by me_ashman

Is this viable for long term and easy to do?

CF cards don't have a huge amount of rewrite capability so this presents an issue. I have done this with a Linux system but not with XP.

This article seems to cover what you need for XP booting.

Baron

**urban_s0ulja** · 11-04-08, 04:29 PM

use a cf to ide adapter
then just set it up as a normal hard disk

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