drive geometry change, reboots after "resetting setup flag"

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I built my first XPE system including a lot of extras initially (Windows
shell, etc). I need to make a smaller system , which I did. When I load it
it comes up in FBA and one of the first screens is "Resetting setup flag",
then it reboots, cycles thru the same mesage, rebooots, over and over. I then
tried to reload my known good original system and it goes thru most of the
FBA but then hits the same message and reboots endlessly. Here is the clue
and odd part: If I try to run Partition Magic afterwards, it stops with an
error that a partition was created with a different drive geometry, and
suggests that I wipe the drive and start over. This happened yesterday and
it took a day to back up and reinstall XP Pro (on the first logical drive) .
The same thing hapened today. Both times after trying to initialize my
minimal system.

My target system at the moment has XP Pro on C:, a D: drive what is
formatted but blank, an E: drive that is my target, and the rest free space.
I'm developing on a different computer running 2000, and transfering the
image via flash drive. This has worked consistantly over the past week with
my original image - it's something about my new minimal image.

Any ideas?

SteveS
 
Thanks for the quick reply.

In EWF I have "Start EWF Enabled" checked. It sounds like it should be
unchecked? But in any case, my original image starts and runs fine with it
checked.

The link you provided talks about the Target Device Settings. I have all my
paths set to the "E:" drive which is where my target is put. I have my
boot.ini set to default to that drive. Is that right? Again this works with
my original image.

And what could be changing the disk geometry values so that the partition
information gets screwed up?

Are there other critical settings that affect FBA that I may be overlooking?

- SteveS
 
Hi Steve,

1. Check your FBA.log to make sure that E: is really your assigned volume letter.

2. You must keep EWF as disabled.

3. I guess that partition magic try to be too smart for it's own good. Only way that he could see different geometry would be if he
read partition table and then calculate LCHS value based on LBA and CHS start and end of each partition.
Then he could compare LCHS values and see differences.
EWF create it's own partition trough geometry reported trough drivers which can be usually different than one reported by BIOS. Once
again this should not be a reason for worry.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
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