EWF Partition Location

[Atmy Witsend]

I have been working on a system that ends up creating an EWF partition
near the end of a 98 GB hard drive. Everything was working as
advertised until I went to a 186 GB hard drive. I create a primary
partition that is 184 GB leaving 2 GB at the end for the EWF partition
which requires 1 GB. When I look at the FBA Log, it indicates that
the EWF partition was created successfully. However, I get weird
behavior such as IP address not sticking between re-boots and loss of
all Environment Variables after adding Environment Variables and
re-booting. If I partition the 186 GB drive the same way that I
partitioned the 98 GB drive (96 GB primary partition leaving the rest
for the EWF partition), everything works fine. This tells me that the
EWF cannot function properly if its partition is located too far out.
Can someone shed some light on this? Does anyone know what the limit
is on how far out an EWF partition can reside?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Atmy,

We are talking about disk based overlay, right?

Try installing new EWF ntldr QFE (Update for Windows XP Embedded with SP1
(832662))

Read about some disk size barriers:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q303013


If this does not help then EWF ntldr. have similar problem with large HDD
sizes.


In mean time you can try to partition disk like.

C: OS Partition with some smaller size ~100 GB.
EWF will be created in second partition.
Then you can create third partition.

Something like this could help you as work around to use whole disk.

Regards,
Slobodan

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