Thanks for the info!! I'll keep that in mind.

I never could get my cf card & adapter to boot on the iES32. Not sure why? My cf card was a 16gb sandisk ultra. The adapter was a syba dual compact flash adapter. It'd try to boot on a separate pc.

Not sure if the combination just wasn't what our iES32 wanted? (Doesn't really matter now.)

Got a Transcend mSATA ssd and a mSATA to 44 pin ide adapter from Amazon. I liked the idea as the adapter came in a case that mounted like an hdd. I figured easy mounting?

Never could get it to work. I couldn't even get it to boot on a standalone machine. Even Windows said "no way" to installing. That adapter went back.

Finally settled on an ableconn iide-msat adapter from Amazon.

Used Acronis True Image to make an image of hdd. Then restored the image onto the Transcend drive (which was in the ableconn adapter). Set the jumper to cable select on the ableconn. Booted right up in the iES32.

....and we left voicemails to our coworkers happily ever after.....