[Technical tips] Make Windows CE Bootable Disk using DiskPrep

This article will talk about the steps to make a Windows CE6 or Compact 7 bootable disk using Diskprep.

Disk Prep

DiskPrep can prepare any hard disk that can be attached to your development PC so that it can boot your X86-based Windows CE OS Design.

USB disks (including disk "keys"), Compact Flash Cards, and SD cards all work if your system BIOS can boot from that type of media. FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT all supported. DOS is not used - the program prepares the bios loader on the disk and only uses that.

If you use Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can use VHD files for VirtualPC. This allows for rapid prototyping of a self-booting system.
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The creation process of make Windows CE Bootable disk using Disprep.

• Target Device: VDX-6354
• Storage types: IDE 512 MB

1. Download Diskprep: Link
   
2. Connect target disk (CF card, DDOM, SATA DOM and so on) to a Windows PC.
   (In this article, we used IDE 512MB as an example.)
   
3. Run Diskprep.exe and configration:
   
4. Copy Windows CE image nk.bin to the target disk, a Windows CE bootable disk preparation completed.
   (ICOP can provide demo images based on customers' requests with ICOP's products purchased – OS Support List)
   

Result: