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<blockquote data-quote="BennieBoy" data-source="post: 256916" data-attributes="member: 12527">Today I installed a new XP and mediaportal onto a Compact flash card.I first created an unattended XP installation with nLite. While ding this, I also installed the latest Service Pack and all the updates since SP2. Installation of XP is deadslow, but it was done while I was sleeping as the install was made unattended.To be honest, everything is quite slow, until ................Everything started flying when I installed EWF.EWF makes sure that every write to the CF is intercepted and written to RAM (making changes during that session still available when needed). When you restart the system, everything is the same as you started earlier.I installed Mediaportal onto a network share, so whenever MP changed data, it is written to this share too.Recording is done by my server.I have to admit, it is fun to try things out now as whenever you screw up, you simply restart the PC and voila, everything is OK again.I you want to save the changes, you can commit them to CF and reboot. This will take quite long as everything has to be written to the SLOOOW CF (40speed). But, this will not happen too much.The result of this is that you have a very robust environment where things are almost impossible to go wrong. Even when power fails while the system is heavily writing data to the (filtered) disk, it does not get corrupt. EWF can also be used on a normal harddisk.Booting is a treat too. The system starts up quite fast and shuts down even quicker.Greetz,Ben</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BennieBoy, post: 256916, member: 12527"] Today I installed a new XP and mediaportal onto a Compact flash card. I first created an unattended XP installation with nLite. While ding this, I also installed the latest Service Pack and all the updates since SP2. Installation of XP is deadslow, but it was done while I was sleeping as the install was made unattended. To be honest, everything is quite slow, until ................ Everything started flying when I installed EWF. EWF makes sure that every write to the CF is intercepted and written to RAM (making changes during that session still available when needed). When you restart the system, everything is the same as you started earlier. I installed Mediaportal onto a network share, so whenever MP changed data, it is written to this share too. Recording is done by my server. I have to admit, it is fun to try things out now as whenever you screw up, you simply restart the PC and voila, everything is OK again. I you want to save the changes, you can commit them to CF and reboot. This will take quite long as everything has to be written to the SLOOOW CF (40speed). But, this will not happen too much. The result of this is that you have a very robust environment where things are almost impossible to go wrong. Even when power fails while the system is heavily writing data to the (filtered) disk, it does not get corrupt. EWF can also be used on a normal harddisk. Booting is a treat too. The system starts up quite fast and shuts down even quicker. Greetz, Ben [/QUOTE]

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