First post, by biessea
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Hi there,
I hope I can find any hint here, and I hope my post is posted in the right section.
The other day my friend gave me this Thin Client as broken (he wasn't use it anymore from years) and I wanted to see more and understand this platform.
The Praim Thin Client has a Via processor, the C3 1,0Ghz Via Eden Esp 10k, with a VIA VT8235 southbridge.
Inside I found a nice Compact Flash installed from Sandisk, an Extreme Pro 16GB model, UDMA7.
Completing a good DDR module of 1GB of RAM.
Now, I wanted to install a Windows operative system here, preferably the Windows 2000 SP4, as my first installation of this operative system.
When I use rufus to create a bootable USB with the ISO of the Windows 2000 the process success and I try to boot through this USB the Thin Client.
But every time it give me an error saying this:
" Hard disk boot sector invalid, press H to retry hard disk ".
Now, I tried a lot of things, I swapped three different USB keys, I tried other operative system (Windows XP, Windows XP lite, Windows 2000), but every time the system boot it shows me that error and I don't know what to do.
I never seen that message. I tried to use another File System, I tried the NTFS, FAT32, FAT...but nothing changed.
So I took out the compact flash and tested and formatted with another my computer, the CF seems perfect.
What kind of problem I have here? How can I install an operative system in this Thin nice Client?
I put some photos about it, so you can understand better.
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