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Luca Pretti (Lucapretti)
Posted on Thursday, Mar 9, 2006 - 11:04:   

I must clone a working booting compact flash to another one.
The two fisical media are identical in size(256 MB) and model (SanDisk).
I have opened the source CF as fisical drive and I have tried with the cloning utility as well as with the backup-restore method.
When I try to boot with the cloned CF I always get the same message at boot-up: "Missing operating system".
WinCE uses a Boot Loader to upload an Image file in the RAM. The two CF (source and cloned) seem identical.
Can you help me? Thank you in advance.

Luca Pretti
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David Lame (David)
Posted on Tuesday, Jun 6, 2006 - 15:02:   

I have exactly the same problem, and the same symptoms.

(In my case, the source disk is a different size and make, but I don't think that should matter, should it? The source disk is 128 MB, and the destination disk is 512 MB. If it will only work to a 128 MByte card, I'll get one of those.)

This function is the whole reason I purchased this program, so I would really appreciate some help on this.
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Stefan Fleischmann (Admin)
Posted on Tuesday, Jun 6, 2006 - 15:20:   

If the contents of all sectors are identical on source and destination card, there is nothing more WinHex could possibly do. We don't have specifications on what renders Windows CE on a compact flash card bootable.

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