RE: RAM EWF and boot failure

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From: Mat Dtler (MatDtler_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:17:02 -0800

Richard,

same thing here: running XPe with RAM EWF, commit to CF, reboot -> no
boot, image scrambled.

It turned out that it was my CF that died. Try to check your CF, (in my case
we were unfortunatlely running FBA on the CF which is a bad idea).

Regards,
Mathias.

"Richard" wrote:

> System Info
> XPe SP1, 256 Megs Ram, Single Partition, RAM EWF Enabled, 105 meg image
> total.
>
> Yesterday, I went out to change a couple of application settings on one of
> our XPe feild devices. It was running fine before I messed with it. It was
> a simple change which has absolutely nothing to do with the OS. I
> committed, then restarted. The system would not come up and was not
> available on the network or remote desktop. So I hooked a keyboard and
> monitor up and it was stuck at the XP boot logo screen. I pressed <enter>
> for grins and it rebooted and came up and did the same thing again. This
> continued several times so I changed out the CF which had a fresh image and
> everything was fine.
>
> Now, what in the world could have caused this and how do I go about finding
> out what happened. I have the CF but I'm sure since it was RAM EWF nothing
> will be written on it. It sure seems as some system files got scrambed when
> I did a commit and rebooted.
>
> Any Clues?
>
> Richard
>
>
>

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