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Making a non-bootable compact flash card, Making a non-bootable CF card on Windows

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Maintaining and administering the 7100 Series 143 Managing log files and backups Making a non-bootable compact flash card Many CF cards that you purchase new are bootable, with one partition. You should not insert such a card into the appliance and then reboot. The appliance will try to boot from the empty partition, and must be powered off and then rebooted after ejecting the CF card. You can use disk utilities on Windows or Linux to make the CF card nonbootable, using a portable USB compact flash adapter. This works best with a new compact flash card, and has been tested with Sandisk 256 MB cards. This method does not always make a used, bootable CF card into a non-bootable card. Making a non-bootable CF card on Windows This section describes how to make a non-bootable CF card on Windows. To make a non-bootable CF card on Windows 2000 or XP 1 Insert a new CF card into the USB CF adapter. 2 Click Start > Run 3 In Run, in the Open: textbox, type: diskmgmt.msc 4 Right-click the drive letter that represents the USB CF adapter and select Delete Partition from the pull-down menu. 5 Right-click the USB CF adapter drive letter again, and select Create Partition from the pull-down menu. 6 Follow the directions as the Wizard guides you through the process, and select a FAT32 partition. 7 In the Wizard, click the radio button to format the new partition. 8 Click Finished. Making a non-bootable CF card on Linux This section describes how to make a non-bootable CF card on Linux. To make a non-bootable CF card on Linux 1 Insert a new CF card into the USB CF adapter. 2 To determine which device name accesses the adapter, type: dmesg | grep SCSI The adapter will be the last entry, if more than one are displayed. The device name will be /dev/sda or very similar. 3 To access the CF card partitions, type:

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Maintaining and administering the 7100 Series
Managing log files and backups
Making a non-bootable compact flash card
Many CF cards that you purchase new are bootable, with one partition. You
should not insert such a card into the appliance and then reboot. The appliance
will try to boot from the empty partition, and must be powered off and then
rebooted after ejecting the CF card.
You can use disk utilities on Windows or Linux to make the CF card non-
bootable, using a portable USB compact flash adapter. This works best with a
new compact flash card, and has been tested with Sandisk 256 MB cards. This
method does not always make a used, bootable CF card into a non-bootable card.
Making a non-bootable CF card on Windows
This section describes how to make a non-bootable CF card on Windows.
To make a non-bootable CF card on Windows 2000 or XP
1
Insert a new CF card into the USB CF adapter.
2
Click
Start
>
Run
3
In
Run
, in the
Open:
textbox, type:
diskmgmt.msc
4
Right-click the drive letter that represents the USB CF adapter and select
Delete Partition
from the pull-down menu.
5
Right-click the USB CF adapter drive letter again, and select
Create
Partition
from the pull-down menu.
6
Follow the directions as the Wizard guides you through the process, and
select a FAT32 partition.
7
In the Wizard, click the radio button to format the new partition.
8
Click
Finished
.
Making a non-bootable CF card on Linux
This section describes how to make a non-bootable CF card on Linux.
To make a non-bootable CF card on Linux
1
Insert a new CF card into the USB CF adapter.
2
To determine which device name accesses the adapter, type:
dmesg | grep SCSI
The adapter will be the last entry, if more than one are displayed. The device
name will be /dev/sda or very similar.
3
To access the CF card partitions, type: