Before someone can say "use Linux", maybe later, but my experience level with it, and my needs rule it out. Does anyone have information on installing XP to removable media? I'm doing an install to a CF card connected to an ATA controller via an adapter. It shows up fine, but the XP install process insists on putting start up files on another drive. I am assuming this is because the CF card shows up as removable. Is it possible to do a strait install to the CF card, or do I need to do something like install to a 'proxy' drive, then image it over to the CF card?
Proxy then image over is pretty easy. You probably have an old IDE drive laying around. Then just use clonezilla to transfer it across.
I'm about to give up on this. I donno if it's the PATA->SATA->CF chain of conversions that's the problem, the PATA controller, or the CF card, but I just can't get things to work. The card is never read right in the system I'm trying to put it into. At least I remembered where I could get a small drive to use a boot drive, I had a 20GB left over after a 360 drive upgrade.
