Re: RAMDisk and HardDisk strikes back!

From: Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\) (sbrcin_at_ptt.yu)
Date: 10/18/04


Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:43:26 +0200

Hi Paolo,

It looks that you have problem with disk.sys driver that is much on lover level in drivers chain that volume letter assignment.
Since if you don't have disk driver then partitions and volumes are never exposed.

Quick try would be to use HDD that is different from HDD that you used during the FBA. Also you can try with HDD that you used
during the FBA, just to compare results.
Before creating SDI file, please delete setupapi.log. (Optionally in registry increase log detailed shown by setupapi)

When you boot from SDI file your setupapi.log will contain only information's related to why your disk failed to start. Please send
this file in this NG.

This also could be PnP related problem (Please check that you have User Mode PnP component)

Regards,
Slobodan

"Paolo Margari" <PaoloMargari@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3F80302E-7CC3-4E63-8E75-306CDA790856@microsoft.com...
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a problem with XPe RAM boot and the hard disk volume mapping.
> After running FBA and doing registry modifications described by Slobodon and
> Pieter in
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&edition=us&frame=right&th=a122cb8b26350253&seekm=s3r5nvs253iuh19uu55otpq1pq02gvv5lb%404ax.com#link9,
> the IDE Disk was detectable and mountable from RAMDisk image only if two HDs
> are presents. BTW, when the HD is alone, the RAMDisk image isn't capable to
> mount the disk. Only RAMDisk device is visible as C:\. In this case, PnP
> driver load fails with error CM_PROB_DRIVER_FAILED_LOAD - "Windows cannot
> load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or
> missing. (Code 39)" as reported by Setupapi.log.
>
> I have modified the registry with the settings described by Slobodan:
>
> 1) Deleted all registry kery from
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices"
> (also the 'MountedDevices' key)
>
> 2) Deleted "SystemPartition" key from
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup"
>
> In any case, the RAMDisk image not mounts the HD partitions or the new HD to
> format. If I plug-in an USB device, like a CF or HD, the drive letter mapping
> fail everytime.
>
> How is possible to solve this problems? I try several combinations but the
> problem
> still here yet! Any suggests are welcome!
>
> Many thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paolo Margari
>
>
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