Develop an operating system using a hard drive:
- Your operating system i.e Windows XP will be requiring 1.5Gigs of hard drive memory, so the initial step is to create the system using a typical standard hard drive.
- Try to Create a partition of 2 Gigs, but it is not possible to install windows xp service pack 2 at this stage, so put the Operating system on a 3 Gigs or bigger drive for proceeding in a successive manner .
- After the above step, Install a new copy of the Operating system using NTFS file system since it has option of minimizing the file contents which is to be used by the user at later stages.
- Make the addition through drivers and wait for appropriate time so that Windows Update will install and place latest patches.
- make an Installation of Beyond TV Link and the Firefly Remote software.
- Try to keep a track or a record that the above procedures are been followed in an appropriate manner and they are functioning properly.
- Right now at this stage it is not so possible or preferable to back up everything using any tool like Partition Magic.
In case you want to roll back to this stage; follow the below given steps with at most care:
- Initially you should turn off virtual memory so it does not create a paging file on the drive. This can be applied by right clicking My Computer and selecting Properties. It’s below the Advanced Tab, insert into another dialog by selecting the Settings button below Performance.
- From there, it’s below yet another Advanced tab and it’s labeled Virtual Memory .
- Make sure that when you select No paging file you hit the Set button or it will not adjust the settings.
- The next step is switching back the OS using XP Lite from Lite PC.
- Here you should do is disable Windows File Protection in the option named Window File Protection tab .
- If you are not able to, then you’ll find windows constantly complaining about missing files.
- Then remove most components including those Advanced Components you can get to show up by changing the default settings .
- since you’ll likely remove the System Restore feature which gobbles up a lot of space, but prevents you from doing something completely irreversible.
- Make sure you reboot a couple times afterwards to remove any system restore points.
- The next step to follow is to boot into Windows Safe Mode to do some basic clean up of the system.
- make it a confirm to change file explorer to show hidden and system files. This can be found in the Folder Options menu in the View tab.
- Delete anything in the Windows directory that starts with NT Uninstall.
- Delete anything in the Windows/Software Distribution/Download directory.
- On larger directories, go to the properties dialog and select the Advanced button and go for compress contents to save disk space. Note that this will be only available if you format your drive using NTFS.
- Try doing this to the following folders: Program Files, Windows/Microsoft.NET, Windows/.inf, Windows/system32.
- Doing just that, the system down to 750MB or so.
- Run floppy boot disks for Partition Magic to resize and move the OS to the compact flash card.
- Make sure you compress the hard drive partition small enough to fit the compact flash card, and then from within Partition Magic, copy the drive over to the compact flash drive.
- Concluding step is to dismental the original hard drive and switch the connectors so it puts the compact flash drive in its place.
- Try to get confirmed that it's in the same location on the ID Bus (e.g Master Drive, Primary IDE channel) or you have to quickly run into a NT loader is missing error.
- Definitely, it will boot up as it did before, a lot more quietly than that squeaky old disk you were using before.
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