EWF

[Guest]

I posted a question a couple days ago about EWF and if I needed to use EWF
even if I used proprietary software that switched my drive to readonly.
Slobodan mentioned that EWF was necessary....

Just for kicks and I had free time, I tried using that software on a XP Pro
installation, the only problem I ran into was that on shutdown the machine
gave me a bunch of delayed write fails on some logs/txt files.

I am basically wondering if I can expect the same from xpe, or should I
expect slobodan's hang on boot....

Thanks guys

Btw Slobodan, I'm not challanging your knowledge I was just curious.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Mark,

Could you please give us more details about what you have done so far?
You are saying that you installed XP Pro on some medium? (What disk medium did you used?)
Then you was able to close it down gracefully and to use some utility from other OS to turn on read-only protection, right?
Then you was able to boot XP Pro from read-only medium, without EWF?

Truth is that I have newer actually tried to boot XPe from read only-medium without EWF enabled.
WinPE can boot from read-only medium (This indicate some support in kernel for this boot scenario), but how XP is configured to do
that I have no idea. (autosense or trough registry)

Just for kicks and I had free time, I tried using that software on a XP Pro
installation, the only problem I ran into was that on shutdown the machine
gave me a bunch of delayed write fails on some logs/txt files.

You can disable most/all log files so you can work-around this problem if you are saying that everything else is working. (This is
most intriguing)

Regards,
Slobodan