these are my steps: bash$ dd bs=32 skip=1 if=KERNEL_SKUB128_1_10_10.nbf of=image.bin bash$ dd bs=1024 skip=256 if=image.bin of=long-ce.bin bash$ dd bs=1k count=32256 if=long-ce.bin of=ce.bin bash$ gzip ce.bin than i loaded ce.bin using load root. and than when i told it to 'boot wince' i got a line of garbage and nothing. From: Toby Gray Date: Sun Aug 29 2004 - 20:15:59 EDT On Monday 30 August 2004 06:32, Matthew quoth thusly: I followed the steps to restore windows ce on a 55XX including truncating the image. but all that resulted in was when i type boot wince i get a line of random garbage characters (the kind where they are half symbol half letter) and than nothing. i can reset with the joypad to get back in to the bootloader but wince won'd load. anyone know what i may be missing? Did you unpack the image before truncating it, or did you just truncate the gzipped file?