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Subject: Re: 586 A problem booting from PCMCIA

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Performaman

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Date Posted: 13:34:31 12/13/03 Sat
In reply to: Vivek Kumar 's message, "Re: 586 A problem booting from PCMCIA" on 10:05:37 06/03/03 Tue

>Hi,
> I am trying to do the same thing here. I want to
>create a boot/setup PCMCIA card for windows 2000 or
>windows XP, to be used on IBM Thinkpad 760XL. I am
>using a 32MB simpletech ATA flash card type I. Can you
>tell me how to make it bootable? Then i think i can
>simply copy the setup files and put a link in
>autoexec.bat!
>any help is welcome.
>thanks,
>Vivek.
>
>
>
>>Hi !!!
>>
>>I have installed Windows 98 Second Edition on a hard
>>disk. I have installed all drivers succesfully.
>>The PC Cards are correctly configured, I used the
>>PCMCSC.exe file and I added to autoexec.bat
>>All was all right!!!
>>
>>So I wanted to Installed Windows 98 Second Edition on
>>a PC Card to boot from it.
>>
>>I follow all steps from the file "Win 95 Install.doc"
>>(with some modifications to win98)
>>
>>I finished all steps, but I change the flash disk for
>>the PC Card!
>>I configured the PC Card on BIOS like an ATA PCMCIA
>>(and put AUTOCONFIC, PHISICAL on Ide2).
>>
>>But when I want to boot from it, Windows loading
>starts
>>but an error message appear "While Initializing device
>>CONFIGMG: Windows Protection Error. You need to
>>restart your computer."
>>
>>I can start Windows only in Safe Mode...
>>
>>I think this problem is because I configured PCMCIA on
>>BIOS
>>(but it's necessary to boot from it).
>>
>>I think that because when I boot from a HDD and I
>>don't
>>configure de PC Card on BIOS, Windows recognize it
>>without problems, but when I configure it on BIOS (for
>>accessing it from MS-DOS too) I get an error message
>>from windows
>>"While Initializing device IOS: Windows Protection
>>Error. You need to restart your computer."
>>
>>Does anyone can tell me what could I do, to boot
>>windows
>>correctly from ATA PCMCIA???
>>
>>"Thanks for the last Replay Gideon"

Windows XP and 2000 usually require more than 32mb of space. Use a 512 or 1024 megabyte card.

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