Format is not available for FAT drives

[Greg Martin]

Hi all,

Ran into this one on my embedded system:

Running two partitions on a CF marked as "non-removable", using the
Sandisk utility I have.
Running RAM EWF on CF partition 1 only.

All is good until I try to format or chkdsk the second partition. The
result of that is: "FORMAT is not available for FAT drives."

So I dropped the CF into a DOS box, and formatted D:. Now the EWFMGR
says "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1", when
I run "ewfmgr c:".

I am using the RAM EWF .sld file suggested by Slobodan.

Any help would be great.

Greg Martin.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Greg,

Go to Win XP and use diskpart to clear all partitions from disk.
Then go to Disk Management and partition/format the CF. (If it is really fixed you can do this).

Registry configured approach is not related to EWF config partition and partition orders. Or even if disk is fixed or removable.
Make sure that you don't have MS component "Enhanced Write Filter" in your image. You need only my component.

Also make sure that you use same ARC path for EWF as you use in boot.ini.

Regards,
Slobodan

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[Greg Martin]

Hi Slobodan,

Are you suggesting that the DOS Format/Fdisk are causing the problem?
I'll try the Disk Manager format/partitioning tomorrow.

I can see and activate both partitions in the XP disk manager.

The EWF is RAMEWF.sld, as provided by yourself.

ARC path is the default in the sld. It works great up until formatting
D: using DOS 6.22.

Regards,

Greg Martin.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Greg,

Are you suggesting that the DOS Format/Fdisk are causing the problem?

I just thought that your image used (somehow) EWF partition.
If not I have no idea for the moment.

Regards,
Slobodan

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[Greg Martin]

Solved this one. The "Primitive: UFAT" component is not required by the
"NTFS/FAT Common Format/Tools" component. Without it, you get the
"<tool> is not available for FAT drives" error.

I assume there is something similar for NTFS partitions, too. I'm just
too lazy to confirm this...

Greg Martin.