Re: Oh Lord, Please Help!

From: Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\) (sbrcin_at_ptt.yu)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:07:35 +0200

Hi Nathan,

Now you have explained problem as it is clear what you did.

etprep will swap C: and E: when called, so after this point you must not boot from HDD any more. You must boot from CD.
Problem is that EWF must become enabled after this operation next time you boot from CD.

Usually this "work" if everything is ok. But things there is always a thing or two missing in steps people do.

I prefer using my approach. (Something you can find in my old posts trough google). I'm using RAM EWF configured trough registry
this way I know it is working 100% before I shutdown image before burning.

Volume letters I swap (or clean) manually using regedit on MountedDevices:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/tips/xp/rtpartin/default.aspx This explains few things .

So this is it.
1. EWF MUST WORK ON NEXT BOOT (BOOT FROM CD). NOT BEFORE.
2. VOLUME LETTERS MUST BE SWAPPED.

Regards,
Slobodan

"Nathan Moinvaziri" <nmoinvaziri@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23A6Y251TEHA.1984@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Ok, people, I've been fusing with this thing forever. I finally got it to a
> decent point. Now I have only one problem. I've been working on this thing
> for weeks now.
>
> The problem that I have is that I build an XPE cd and it gives a Delayed
> Write error on drive E: whenever I load up XPE after the FBA. So this occurs
> when I first load up XPE after the FBA process.
>
> My configuration is this.
> 512MB RAM
> 13GB Hardrive which has C: as 300MB partition to store XPE image.
> CD Drive on drive D:
> VIA CL 10000 Motherboard
>
> Drive E: seems to be created after FBA. It is a El Torito Disk Volume or so
> it says. The rest of the parition on the 13GB is unallocated. There is no
> left over EWF partitions when I install the thing.
>
> Also, Windows XP Event Viewer gives me some errors. Here are the error logs.
> To open them use eventvwr.exe. I cannot seem to make anything of them. I
> also included my FBALOG.TXT and also EWF1.TXT which is what I get when I
> type in ewfmgr.exe. When I do ewfmgr.exe c: it shows it as being RAM and
> DISABLED and NO_CMD. But I believe etprep.exe changes this when I do the
> etprep.exe /all
>
> After FBA I run etprep /all. This restarts the computer and on the next boot
> it does not allow me to log in because I get more Delayed Write errors along
> with a LSASS.exe Unable to write to registry error.
>
> I don't see how I would have not enough memory. Seeing how my image is 200MB
> and I allow a total of 300MB space. That is more than enough. And it should
> not be giving me this error repeatedly. I had this same problem when I had a
> 634MB image.
>
> If anybody could help me that would be great!
>
> http://www.nathanm.com/xpe/ewf1.txt
> http://www.nathanm.com/xpe/fbalog.txt
> http://www.nathanm.com/xpe/log1.evt
> http://www.nathanm.com/xpe/log2.evt
>
> Thanks!
> Nathan Moinvaziri
>
> P.S. Thanks Slobodan Brcin for your help thus far.
>
>
>

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