Compact Flash CF Freezes at XP Boot Screen - Page 2

spudgunblunder · 02-07-2007, 01:09 PM

What's your read speed?
I did buy a 2GB USB drive with samsung mem 153X but I did'nt realise how old my via MB is. Only v1.1 USB and does not seem to want to boot from usb at all.

SFiorito · 02-07-2007, 06:59 PM

don't remember the official read speeds off-hand, but my Extreme I would boot in under 20 seconds if I remember correctly. This was from power-on to idling desktop on a mildly slimmed XP SP2 OS.

spudgunblunder · 02-08-2007, 11:49 AM

Would a 3.5" SCSI be quicker? I have one laying around but no adapter.

SFiorito · 02-08-2007, 12:41 PM

my Extreme I would beat my 2.5" 4200RPM drive when booting up no problem. but most likely yes the desktop scsi drive will be faster. don't go for (current) flash drives purely for speed, because it'll either just match or be slightly slower than a desktop drive (depending on what you're doing). flash is best for size/power/reliability reasons. new flash solutions will do all that and even be faster. i'm really looking forward to getting m-system's new CF drive which may finally be the device i've been looking for.

buggout · 06-07-2007, 06:43 AM

I'm having the same issue, but I have a real card. I think it may be due to the way the files were copied over. I used xcopy as well... What is the best method to copy the files over?