ewfOpen error

[Guest]

I have an application that works; I added EWF so I can run on a DiskChip
(flash drive). FBA runs to completion but the EWF fails. Everything else
seems to work

My system has only the DiskChip connected during FBA (and an empty floppy).

I set up the system using 'Scenerio 5' from Ch 19 of "WXPE Advanced". The
only difference is that I have not run the utility to make the CF fixed
(working on getting it from SanDisk). I created a partition of 220M on the
256M ChipDisk

I set up the EWF in TD for:

Max# protected Vols: 1
Max # Overlay levels: 1
EWF partition size: 0
Start EWF enabled: not
Enable Lazy Write: not
Disk#: 0
Part #:1
Disk Type: IDE
Overlay type: RAM
Optimization: Optimal Perf

EWFMGR returns "unable to find an Ewf volume"

Here is the pertinent (I hope) parts of the FLBALOG:

2:21:06 AM - [FBADoReboot] Sleeping...
2:21:16 AM - [FBADoReboot] Exiting process...
2:22:12 AM - ConfigureEwf() Start.
2:22:12 AM - Getting EWF config parameters from registry.
2:22:13 AM - Non El Torito disk configuration.
2:22:13 AM - EWF Partition Size = 0 (KBytes), Levels = 1, Volumes = 1.
2:22:13 AM - Protected Volume Config #0 :
2:22:13 AM - Disk= 0,Part= 1,DiskType= IDE,Type= RAM.
2:22:14 AM - Enable= Disabled, Optimize= 0, LazyWrite= N.
2:22:14 AM - Found 1 Hard Disks.
2:22:14 AM - Disk #0 layout info:
2:22:14 AM - PRIMARY partition,start=0x0000000000004000,
len=0x000000000dbfc000, type= 6
2:22:14 AM - FREE partition,start=0x000000000dc00000,
len=0x0000000001900000, type= 0
2:22:15 AM - Allocating EWF in PRIMARY partition,
start=0x000000000dc00000, len=0x0000000000008000.
2:22:15 AM - Created EWF partition on Disk = 0, partition = 2,size =
0x0000000000008000 .
2:22:15 AM - ewfOpen.
2:22:16 AM - ewfOpen returned invalid file handle.
2:22:16 AM - Deleting EWF Partition #0, disk#=0, type=69
2:22:16 AM - ConfigureEwf() End, status = 0x2.
2:22:17 AM - [CallEntryPointThread] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ewfdll.dll,
ConfigureEwf (Error: 0x2)
2:22:17 AM - [FBASetProgressText] Resetting Setup Flag...
2:22:39 AM - [FBADoReboot] Sleeping...
2:22:49 AM - [FBADoReboot] Rebooting system...

Any ideas on why ewfOpen fails?

- SteveS

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Steve,

RAM EWF must create config partition and XPe can't do that on removable disks :-(
You can use Registry Configured RAM EWF instead to avoid this problem.

You can find description is XPe SP2 documentation, or for SP1 my component on www.xpefiles.com

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Guest]

Thanks Slobodan -

I'll try making the drive fixed first, else I'll go your route. I've signed
an NLA with SanDisk - waiting on the utility. I was wondering if that was
the problem , since I did have EWF working on a standard hard drive.

- SteveS

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Yup. That was a problem

Regards,
Slobodan

Thanks Slobodan -

I'll try making the drive fixed first, else I'll go your route. I've signed
an NLA with SanDisk - waiting on the utility. I was wondering if that was
the problem , since I did have EWF working on a standard hard drive.

- SteveS

 

[KM]

Steve,

But switching to EWF RAM Reg mode may be better for your platform anyway.