Some CF cards identify themselves as removable disks as opposed to fixed disks.

This poses a problem when using a CF card as the primary install drive for Windows, which will not enable DMA or pagefile on “removable” disks.

The solution is to force the driver for a Hitachi MicroDrive on the CF card. (Not the IDE controller)

xpfildrvr1224_320.zip

(File source: http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.net/Projects/USBXP/xpfildrvr1224_320.zip)
(Ref: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/CompactFlash_boot_drive)

5 Responses to “Windows XP driver to force CF as fixed disk (XPfildrvr1224.zip)”

1. Herb Lom says:

   2013-06-09 at 05:15

   Firefox 21.0 Windows 7 x64 Edition
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0

   For XP – still a valid solution.
   Thanks man!

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2. bloodfart says:

   2014-11-26 at 23:36

   Firefox 33.0 Mac OS X 10.9
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   Still working in 2014, for XP with SP3 on a Transcend TS32GCF400 card with the Addonics adapter. Took a long time to find this solution, but it’s exactly what I needed. Thank you!

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3. bobcore says:

   2017-02-18 at 08:55

   SRWare Iron Safari Windows 10 x64 Edition
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   Thanks so much! 2017 – still helpful

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4. frenchaqp says:

   2017-10-04 at 23:14

   Google Chrome 61.0.3163.100 Windows 10 x64 Edition
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

   Thanks a lot!!! WXP SP3 in Schneider iPC using a CF SanDisk Extreme of 64GB without adaptors (changed the DIP SW#5 System DIP sws “B” on motherboard to make the CF as master) and works beautiful! Abrazos!

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5. P,Silva says:

   2020-12-01 at 22:27

   Firefox 48.0 Windows XP
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0

   Obrigado, Ainda funciona em dezembro de 2020, acabado de instalar Windows XP Sp3 matherboard CA61 Pentium 3 667mgz e P2XBL Pentium 3 500MGz com adaptador Chino HX-168 CF-IDE40 cartão compact flash sandisk Extreme 32gb e 64gb, o adaptador HX-168 CF-IDE40 só aceita cartões até 32gb mas o de 64 trabalha bem mas só com 32gb, obrigado novamente pela informação.

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