Eurotech Apollo - Transferring a New Image to the APOLLO; Preparing a New Intel USB Flash Disk Module

APOLLO Windows XP Embedded Quickstart Transferring a new image to the APOLLO
© 2007 Eurotech Ltd Issue E 37
Transferring a new image to the APOLLO
The flash disk module supplied with the Development Kit is installed with a copy of the
Standard XPe image. This contains many of the features available in Windows XP
Embedded and is well suited to a development environment. Customers who wish to
use an image created by Target Designer must generate the image on a host
development system before transferring it to the flash disk on the APOLLO.
All the images for the APOLLO Windows XP Embedded Development Kit
shipped by Eurotech Ltd are designed for 2GB Intel USB Flash disks only. If
you want to use a storage media size other than 2GB, you must use
Windows XP Embedded Studio to modify the boot partition size from the
corresponding configuration, and rebuild the image.
Also please note that the Intel USB Flash Disk has to be seen as drive C: on
the APOLLO board for the images shipped with this Development Kit to
work. For details, see Configuration information, page 34.
Preparing a new Intel USB Flash Disk module
Intel USB Flash Disk modules are available in various sizes, from 1GB. Contact
Eurotech Ltd for further information about these parts (see
Appendix A – Contacting
Eurotech Ltd
, page 49).
These devices are supplied completely blank, with a single partition already defined. To
ensure that they will work correctly with XP Embedded, they must be repartitioned and
reformatted before they can be used.
The following procedure erases everything from the USB Flash Disk module, so
make sure there is no useful data on the module before you begin.
To repartition the Intel USB Flash Disk module, follow these steps:
1 Connect a DVD reader to the IDE connector on the APOLLO.
2 Power on the APOLLO, and press F2 to enter the BIOS.
3 Navigate to the Boot section using the Æ and Å arrow keys, and make sure that
CD-ROM Drive is selected as the first boot device. If you need to change the order,
you can do so using the + and – keys.
4 At this point, insert the APOLLO Windows XP Embedded Development Kit DVD
into the DVD reader.
5 Navigate to the Exit section using the Æ and Å arrow keys, select Exit Saving
Changes and press Enter.