Mysterious Partition after FBA completes

[Guest]

I am building an XP Embedded image that uses EWF and HORM. Both are set to
be enabled after FBA finishes. In building our test images, I find that
after FBA finishes on the disk, a new partition has appeared. It is
appearing as a 63 KB partition in Acronis Disk Director, but doesn't appear
in the Windows Disk Manager.

I find every time I want to test a new build, I have to go through and
delete the little partition, reformat the c: drive and copy the new files
over to the drive. Is this the correct process or am I missing something
very easy?

Also, what is the mysterious partition and what does it do?

Thanks
Shawn

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

If you are using EWF with RAM overlay a second EWF volume parition gets
created on the disk. The partition is very small and it holds the EWF setup
information. You could use EWF RAM-REG mode - and no secondary parition will
be created.

Take a look at the online help or MSDN overview of EWF.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912915.aspx
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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Guest]

Thanks Sean

Should I have to delete the EWF Partition every time I create a new OS build?

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

If you continue to use RAM overlay, the partition will be deleted and
re-created during FBA. If you move to RAM reg than you will have to use
something like Diskpart of FDISK to remove the partition.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit