Creating EWF partition fails in SP1 evaluation build

[David Harris]

I am using the SP1 evaluation kit to investigate XP embedded. I have all the
QFE's installed that were released prior to 1st November 2003.
When trying to set-up EWF on a system with the following disk layout ...

Single 35GB IDE Disk
1.5GB Primary FAT32 (XP Embedded test area)
15GB Primary NTFS (XP Professional Development environment)
10GB Extended NTFS (Used for shared data storage)
8.5GB Unpartitioned.

Using the following parameters ...

EWF Component Revision = 1901 (from Q823025)
Protected Volumes = 1
Max Overlays = 1
EWF Partition Size = 250000
Protected Volume #1
Start EWF Enabled = TRUE
Enable Lazy Write = FALSE
Disk No. = 0
Partition No. = 1
Disk Type = IDE
Overlay Type = Disk
Optimal Performance = TRUE

First Boot fails to set-up the EWF properly, logging the following messages in
FBALOG.txt.

8:44:31 AM - ConfigureEwf() Start.
8:44:31 AM - Getting EWF config parameters from registry.
8:44:31 AM - Non El Torito disk configuration.
8:44:32 AM - EWF Partition Size = 250000 (KBytes), Levels = 1, Volumes = 1.
8:44:32 AM - Protected Volume Config #0 :
8:44:32 AM - Disk= 0,Part= 1,DiskType= IDE,Type= Disk.
8:44:32 AM - Enable= Enabled, Optimize= 0, LazyWrite= N.
8:44:32 AM - Found 1 Hard Disks.
8:44:32 AM - Disk #0 layout info:
8:44:32 AM - PRIMARY partition,start=0x0000000000007e00, len=0x000000005e210200,
type= 11
8:44:32 AM - PRIMARY partition,start=0x000000005e218000, len=0x00000003a99e0000,
type= 7
8:44:32 AM - EXTENDED partition,start=0x0000000407bf8000,
len=0x00000002713b6000, type= 15
8:44:32 AM - LOGICAL partition,start=0x0000000407bf8000, len=0x00000002713b6000,
type= 7
8:44:32 AM - FREE partition,start=0x0000000678fae000, len=0x0000000223b66000,
type= 0
8:44:32 AM - Can't create EWF partition size = 0x000000000f427e00 on disk# 0.
8:44:32 AM - Failed to create EWF partition.
8:44:32 AM - ConfigureEwf() End, status = 0x80070057.


Questions:
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1) Is the EWF feature disabled in the eveluation kit?
2) If not why can't it create an EWF partition? There are only 3 primary
partitions on the disk so it should be able to create a 4th for use by the EWF.


David A. Harris

 

[Heidi Linda eMVP]

I am using the SP1 evaluation kit to investigate XP embedded. I have all the
QFE's installed that were released prior to 1st November 2003.
When trying to set-up EWF on a system with the following disk layout ...

Single 35GB IDE Disk
1.5GB Primary FAT32 (XP Embedded test area)
15GB Primary NTFS (XP Professional Development environment)
10GB Extended NTFS (Used for shared data storage)
8.5GB Unpartitioned.

The unpartitioned space needs to be *within* the extended partition, after
the logical drive.

 

[David Harris]

Thankyou for your help. The EWF now works correctly if I do as you say.