Thread: Installing XP on the SATA Flashdrive

Originally Posted by jonessc

Typical modern laptop is 5400rpm, desktop 7200rpm, not sure what a CF would give you. Only advantage is they use less power, and silent from what ive read anyway

And smaller, and more shock resistant. And lower seek times, so faster where you have bad access patterns across the disk (but slower in raw streaming throughput). And they eventually die if you write too much to them.

If you want a fast boot, look at hibernate or suspend, also consider HORM. Strip down your system as much as possible, turn off stuff you don't use (network is a good one to go).

I unzip windows from a flash disc into a ramdisk and boot from there. That is quite fast (17 seconds cold boot including POST, Win98SE).

well I think im going to do Nlited XP, EWF, Minlogon, and use a 4 GB CF card, with the IDE adapter. I do not think the SATA adapter will have improved performance, then you suggest installing HORM. I will problably get the MX1 PSU for the Micro ATX motherboard, is there a way to config HORM with that as well. My front end is also centrafuse.

Is this going to be a fast Setup ( the CF card has X266 Speed)

Use HORM Manager Lite from Wechsler Consulting. It's a simple GUI for enabling/disabling EWF and HORM so you don't have to use command line all the time.

http://www.wechslernet.com/english/Produkte.htm

My personal experience has been that HORM actually slows down my boot/shutdown time, probably since I like to have more RAM on my system. There is always that hibernation loading time, and if the system is optimized you can kind of circumvent that.

Originally Posted by Machinist

Use HORM Manager Lite from Wechsler Consulting. It's a simple GUI for enabling/disabling EWF and HORM so you don't have to use command line all the time.

http://www.wechslernet.com/english/Produkte.htm

Do you still need to do all the manual registry hacks to enable HORM in the first place or does that tool do everything? I am running XPP on the carputer, it would be nice to have a tool that sets HORM up from scratch.

I too have an interest in this config. It's going to be a looong cold winter here in Michigan and the 2nd to the last thing I want to freeze is my drive.