XP Pro on CF card working!!

**GARB-E** · 12-28-2004, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by SlashEMc2k

Garb-E,
My Cold boot time is 24 sec this is with XP SP2 Minlogon and EWF.
I presume it could be to do with the spec of Knubiles laptop?
I`m using a desktop Pentium 2.4ghz 768mb ram 20GB HD 7400rpm
I will be using nlite and the new CFC card when it comes

so we will see what new boot times I get.

Ok so with 1GHz machine with 512 ram and 7200 hard drive 30 seconds is about as good as its going to get from a cold boot?

**yunusyu** · 12-28-2004, 03:37 PM

Very cool

congrats on achieving your goal

**SFiorito** · 12-28-2004, 03:57 PM

Did you use FAT or NTFS? Not sure if that'll make a significant speed difference. Did you also use all the latest reg entries I added to that web page I posted a couple weeks ago? I noticed that XP was trying to run chkdsk at each boot up which was costing me a couple seconds.

**mpattonm** · 12-28-2004, 04:09 PM

Just curious: what is better in terms of speed: ntfs or fat and why?

**SFiorito** · 12-28-2004, 04:10 PM

MSFT claims FAT will tend to perform better for XPe, so that's what I used. I haven't done a test with NTFS though. My cold boot times hover around 19-22 from BIOS POST.

**SFiorito** · 12-28-2004, 04:51 PM

BTW, it looks like the Extreme III is finally in stock!

**Prindle19** · 12-28-2004, 05:22 PM

Dominik, that 'cactus' comment took me back to the semester of Uni i did at UQ, i havent heard anyone use that term in over a year now back in the states

**CowPuter** · 12-28-2004, 05:31 PM

I'm interested in Dominik's question. Does anyone know if CF cards have a finite read/write life as compared to harddrives? I also thought I'd seen something about this, um, somewhere.

CowPuter

**ddn** · 12-28-2004, 05:36 PM

Yes, CF cards have a finite life. I have hit this point in my development of embedded systems with CF drives. Some cards handle failing blocks better than others.

**knubile** · 12-28-2004, 05:51 PM

Wow. There's a million replies to this in less than a day.

K. For system specs, check my sig.
I'm using an Extreme not an Extreme III.
I don't think my nlite setup is final at all yet. There are other threads about this. I'm looking for advice on this myself.
CF card do have a limited read/write life. That's why I am using EWF. Search on this if you don't know what I'm talking about. There's been a lot of discussion about it.
I am also using minlogon.
I used bootvis on the laptop drive 4 times before imaging it to the CF card.

Hope that answers everything for now.