Re: USB boot and EWF RAM REG

Raffaele,

Unfortunately, there is not much you can do to speed up the FBA process on USB stick. Obviously, only use USB 2.0 devices and make
sure USB 2.0 Boot component stack is included and resolved in your runtime config.

It is still weird the behavior you are seeing with the EWF on the stick. Does the same behavior your are seeing on the image
directly deployed and ran through FBA on the stick?
What happens when you just issue "ewfmgr c: -commit" command on the image running on the stick?

Also, when you copy image from CF to the stick make sure to enable EWF only on the stick. In other word, please have EWF disabled on
CF.

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Regards,
KM

Konstantin,
the procedure you suggested unlocked the stick.
I also tried to reset the same key on XPE itself, but it restarts with EWF still enabled.
I must say that the FBA phase has been done on a CompactFlash and not on the stick itself, to speed up operation. The first, and
only time I did on the stick it took about 2 hours!!
After that I do on the CF and at the end copy all files onto the stick.
CF and stick are both FAT32 formatted.
Perhaps some disk architecture for EWF is different.
Any idea to reduce the FBA phase time? a faster stick of course, but all I've checked are slow.
regards, Raffaele

"KM" <konstmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio news:e9rbeTvnHHA.2596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Raffaele,

EWF RAM Reg mode works quite well for me on all USB images I created.

If you want an intermediate (dev) solution, you can open up the image's system registry hive offline (from another OS such XP
Pro) using regedt.exe/Load Hive function. And disable EWF there by setting the appropriate registry value to 0:
[HKLM\System\ControlSet001\Services\EWF\Parameters\Protected\Volume0],"Enabled"=dword:0.

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Regards,
KM

Hello all,
I have installed XPE image ( FP 2007) on a USB stick and boot from it.
It's rather slow, but it's nice.
I have EWF RAM reg mode and if protection is enabled it boots faster ( about 1 min. for 300 mega bytes image).
I can't disable any more EWF, since command
-disable
or
-commitanddisable hangs up the computer, that stops to reply. I only can shut off and restart.
EWF is still enabled.
Has anyone checked EWF and BOOTUSB?
regards
Raffaele






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