Newbie How to enable and disable EWF from a DOS Command Center

[Paul Tyler]

I have a XPe client I am testing, and am told that I can disable the write
feature and renable it. Is there a specific DOS command to do this?

Thanks

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Paul Tyler
Athena USA
6524 Walker Street
Suite 230
Saint Louis Park, MN 55426
952-876-0428
952-883-0065 FAX

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

I have a XPe client I am testing, and am told that I can disable the write

feature and renable it. Is there a specific DOS command to do this?

Or you can commit changes, that will always work.

ewfmgr C: -commit

Are you sure that you need to do that? If someone told you to do this, then
you should provide you with some instructions how to do it.

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Paul Tyler]

Thanks Slobodan, I actually found it finally on Google, through the good
people posting here. Actually in this case, I have a developer building me
an XPe image for a thin client roll out and he is out of touch today and I
am mucking about trying to get an idea of what is going on and how I set up
ICA connections for users and keep them there etc.

Cheers

Paul

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Paul Tyler
Athena USA
6524 Walker Street
Suite 230
Saint Louis Park, MN 55426
952-876-0428
952-883-0065 FAX

 

[Scott Kelly]

Paul,

See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/htm
l/xetskEWFManagerUsage.asp

EWF can be either "enabled" or "disabled". In "disabled" mode, any changes
made to the protected volume are actually written to the volume. In other
words, the volume is NOT protected - or protection is "disabled".

In "enabled" mode, the changes to the protected volume are written to the
EWF overlay area (either RAM or DISK based).

You can only change modes via a reboot. You use ewfmgr.exe to set the mode.
You can run ewmgr to see if it is currently enabled or disabled:

ewfmgr c:

will report either:
Protected Volume Configuration
Type RAM
State ENABLED
or

Protected Volume Configuration
Type RAM
State DISABLED

You can then change the mode (but it will not take affect until you reboot)
by using either:
ewfmgr c: -enable
or
ewfmgr c: -disable

If you ewf is currently enabled, you can use:
ewfmgr c: -commit
to actually commit all the changes

If using DISK based EWF and you want to lose all changes on the overlay on a
reboot, use:
ewfmgr c: -restore

When using RAM overlays, you will lose changes on reboot anyway.

Scott

 

[Paul Tyler]

Thanks! That helps a lot!

Cheers!

Paul

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Paul Tyler
Athena USA
6524 Walker Street
Suite 230
Saint Louis Park, MN 55426
952-876-0428
952-883-0065 FAX