Windows system disk on an USB storage: possible?
Hello, I have this problem: I have a panel PC which has WinXP embedded and WinXP professional on two partitions. Only the XP Embedded partition is a system partition. Thi panel PC has only USB and NET ports (no disk neither CD drives). Yesterday I made a mistake, and with Partition Magic I set the boot partition to be the WinXP one, which wasn't a system partition => now the PC is not going to start!! I can't start it with the WinXP intallation CD or with any bootable disk. My ideas are:
1) Write on this forum to get some hints.
2)Try by using boot by ethernet, using Linux NTFS.
3)Try to make a bootable USB disk containig the installation of winXP, or perhaps an MBR utility.
Is it right to assume that swapping the partitions descriptions in the MBR would work?
Thanks for any information.
BrownB