EWF doesn't work after the deploying system image to the target

Andrey Degtyaryov

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Jan 14, 2004, 10:38:38 AM1/14/04

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Hello.
I got some problem with EWF. The system, deployed from my computer to the
target worked fine. The configuration of EWF was RAM:256MB. There were two
partitions on disk: 1 - Primary, 2 - Extanded with logic volume that used
not all space off extended partition. EWF created small volume in nonused
space of Extended partition. Then I used Norton Ghost to get the disk image
and restored it on other computer. And here EWF stoped to work. I got
"Unable to find Ewf Volume" message and nothing couldn't help me to create
it once more. If there any way to make disk copy with XPEmbedded with EWF
and restore it on other computer or any opportunity to turn on the EWF?
Thank you.
Andrey.

Slobodan Brcin

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Jan 14, 2004, 10:45:45 AM1/14/04

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Hi Andrey,

If this is RAM EWF then you can configure and use EWF without this small
partition.

You can find more info on www.xpefiles.com how to configure and use RAM EWF.

Regards,
Slobodan

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Mario Dambauer

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Jan 14, 2004, 10:49:16 AM1/14/04

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I am not sure, but I can remember, that with EWF you cant use extended
partitions, only primary.....
Create your second partition as primary and it should work.....

Best Regards,
Mario

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Mario Dambauer

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Jan 14, 2004, 11:17:07 AM1/14/04

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aaaa sorry, forget what I said, this is only at disk overlay...

Mario

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Dan Simpson [MS]

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Jan 14, 2004, 11:36:38 AM1/14/04

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Yes Mario is right.

You can configure your EWF volume INSIDE an extended partition (if there's
room). If there isn't room iniside the extended partition, EWF will try to
create the EWF volume immediately after the extended partition and will
fail. However, you can configure the EWF Volume immediately after a primary
partition without any problems.

The problem you are running into is in copying the EWF Volume over to your
target with Ghost. Try the EWF RAM method from www.xpefiles.com. This
describes how to configure EWF without having to create an EWF volume.

I think I remember someone posting how to use Ghost to copy over an EWF
volume. Probably best to do a newsgroup search.

Hope this helps,

Dan

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Doug Hoeffel

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Jan 14, 2004, 12:38:51 PM1/14/04

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All:

Ghost can be used, depending on the version, with switches FDSP, SZEE, and
IR.

I use Ghost to deploy the RAM-based EWF partition. Only caveats are that
the EWF partition grows to 8 Mb which I think is the smallest partition that
XP can create. Also, the EWF is initially enabled and can be disabled
via -commitanddisable.

HTH... Doug
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Doug G

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Jan 15, 2004, 10:54:39 AM1/15/04

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I use disk-based EWF partition and also had trouble Ghosting the system
image to my targets. I am not a Ghost expert and didn't have the time to
mess around with it, so I created a run-once script that runs the first time
the target boots and issues the command "rundll32 ewfdll.dll,EwfConfigure
Start". This creates the partition on the target in previously-unpartitioned
space. On the next reboot, EWF is active and enabled.

It may be a kludge, but we have been generating a lot of targets lately and
I haven't been called in yet to fix a problem :-).

Doug Gordon

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