EWF broken after fbreseal + clone kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com 05.07.2007 01:45:04 Hi all, I built an image with XPE SP2 FP2007. FBA on a hard drive, configured it,checked ewfmgr and it said ewf was discable on C:, ran fbreseal. I copied that image to a CF card with the same partition sizes(details below) using the robocopy command line tool. This has worked flawlessly for me many times before. Booted from the CF card, all is well. OS functions perfectly. The only problem is, when I run "ewfmgr C:", I get the following error. "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" If I just run ewfmgr, it says it can't find any ewf volumes. So now I can't enable ewf. I've done this procedure many many times using a CF card to run FBA,then cloning it to other CF cards. I figured I'd save a few CF cards, by running FBA on a hard drive. Both hard drive and CF card were setup the exact same way. C: 750megs FAT32 D: 250megs FAT32 Bootprep performed on C:. The hard drive is a 40gig 2.5" drive, but I only created the two partitions as above to match the CF card. Any thought on what the problem might be? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-bit[ at ]or-this-csas.net.au> 05.07.2007 02:05:11 kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com wrote: [Quoted Text] > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" > > Any thought on what the problem might be? Are you using RAM Reg mode? -- -Mike

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com 05.07.2007 12:39:36 Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. Kareem On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- csas.net.au> wrote: [Quoted Text] > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" > > > Any thought on what the problem might be? > > Are you using RAM Reg mode? > > -- > -Mike

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com 05.07.2007 13:40:58 I just tried fbreseal without the -keepmount option thinking that might have had an effect. No success. Kareem On Jul 5, 8:39 am, kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: [Quoted Text] > Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a > transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. > > Kareem > > On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- > > csas.net.au> wrote: > > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" > > > > Any thought on what the problem might be? > > > Are you using RAM Reg mode? > > > -- > > -Mike

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_liming[ at ]sjjmicro.com> 05.07.2007 16:37:27 As a test, have you tried running FBA on the CF card, and then recopy the image back to the CF card? Regards, Sean Liming www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit <kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1183642858.270860.28700[ at ]n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] >I just tried fbreseal without the -keepmount option thinking that > might have had an effect. No success. > > Kareem > > On Jul 5, 8:39 am, kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >> Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a >> transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. >> >> Kareem >> >> On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- >> >> csas.net.au> wrote: >> > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >> > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" >> >> > > Any thought on what the problem might be? >> >> > Are you using RAM Reg mode? >> >> > -- >> > -Mike > >

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com 05.07.2007 19:29:35 Just did that test. When FBA is done on a CF card, then sealed, and clone, all works well. The issue only happens when a hard drive is used to perform the FBA process. Strange. Kareem On Jul 5, 12:37 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > As a test, have you tried running FBA on the CF card, and then recopy the > image back to the CF card? > > Regards, > > Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com > Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit > > <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1183642858.270860.28700[ at ]n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > > >I just tried fbreseal without the -keepmount option thinking that > > might have had an effect. No success. > > > Kareem > > > On Jul 5, 8:39 am, kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > >> Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a > >> transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. > > >> Kareem > > >> On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- > > >> csas.net.au> wrote: > >> > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > >> > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" > > >> > > Any thought on what the problem might be? > > >> > Are you using RAM Reg mode? > > >> > -- > >> > -Mike

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_liming[ at ]sjjmicro.com> 05.07.2007 23:43:11 Actually this is a very old issue. One of the early XPe white papers or help files suggested to run the FBA on a hard drive than transfer over to a CF. Many people tried this and ran into problems. Best practice is to run FBA on the flash drive to begin with. Regards, Sean Liming www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit <kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1183663775.402749.172560[ at ]w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Just did that test. When FBA is done on a CF card, then sealed, and > clone, all works well. The issue only happens when a hard drive is > used to perform the FBA process. > Strange. > > Kareem > > > On Jul 5, 12:37 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> > wrote: >> As a test, have you tried running FBA on the CF card, and then recopy the >> image back to the CF card? >> >> Regards, >> >> Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com >> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit >> >> <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message >> >> news:1183642858.270860.28700[ at ]n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com... >> >> >I just tried fbreseal without the -keepmount option thinking that >> > might have had an effect. No success. >> >> > Kareem >> >> > On Jul 5, 8:39 am, kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >> >> Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a >> >> transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. >> >> >> Kareem >> >> >> On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- >> >> >> csas.net.au> wrote: >> >> > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >> >> > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" >> >> >> > > Any thought on what the problem might be? >> >> >> > Are you using RAM Reg mode? >> >> >> > -- >> >> > -Mike > >

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com 06.07.2007 16:42:16 Alright. Thanks for the help. I'll just designate one CF card as the sacrificial FBA card. Cheers, Kareem On Jul 5, 7:43 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Actually this is a very old issue. One of the early XPe white papers or help > files suggested to run the FBA on a hard drive than transfer over to a CF. > Many people tried this and ran into problems. Best practice is to run FBA on > the flash drive to begin with. > > Regards, > > Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com > Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit > > <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1183663775.402749.172560[ at ]w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > > Just did that test. When FBA is done on a CF card, then sealed, and > > clone, all works well. The issue only happens when a hard drive is > > used to perform the FBA process. > > Strange. > > > Kareem > > > On Jul 5, 12:37 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> > > wrote: > >> As a test, have you tried running FBA on the CF card, and then recopy the > >> image back to the CF card? > > >> Regards, > > >> Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com > >> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit > > >> <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > > >>news:1183642858.270860.28700[ at ]n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > > >> >I just tried fbreseal without the -keepmount option thinking that > >> > might have had an effect. No success. > > >> > Kareem > > >> > On Jul 5, 8:39 am, kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > >> >> Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a > >> >> transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. > > >> >> Kareem > > >> >> On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- > > >> >> csas.net.au> wrote: > >> >> > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > >> >> > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" > > >> >> > > Any thought on what the problem might be? > > >> >> > Are you using RAM Reg mode? > > >> >> > -- > >> >> > -Mike

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone "Gert Leunen" <Gert.Leunen[ at ]newsgroups.nospam> 11.07.2007 09:46:38 I don't think you can clone the EWF partition to other systems: it needs to be recreated at the target system. This EWF partition creation is scheduled as an FBA phase (65520 to be exact). I usually apply manual reseal (reseal set at phase 0) and right before I execute the fbreseal command, I lookup this partition creation instruction in the registry and set its FBAWasHere value back to 0 (in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbedded\FBA; so far I've only seen one key that starts with a 4, and that's the one - description is "Creates the EWF partition", but the key name changes each time you create a new image, at least it always starts with 4). If you use automatic reseal (configured at phase 12000), you can still offline edit the system registry hive after sealing has completed. Then copy all but the EWF partition and leave enough space on the target harddisk for that EWF partition to be created: it'll do so on the first run (FBA seal break; by the way, I find it funny that since Update Rollup 1 it now says something like "resealing in progress", I don't think that's the case...). Best regards, Gert Leunen R&D International NV <kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1183740136.464741.207430[ at ]q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Alright. > > Thanks for the help. I'll just designate one CF card as the > sacrificial FBA card. > > Cheers, > Kareem > > On Jul 5, 7:43 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> > wrote: >> Actually this is a very old issue. One of the early XPe white papers or >> help >> files suggested to run the FBA on a hard drive than transfer over to a >> CF. >> Many people tried this and ran into problems. Best practice is to run FBA >> on >> the flash drive to begin with. >> >> Regards, >> >> Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com >> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit >> >> <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message >> >> news:1183663775.402749.172560[ at ]w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... >> >> > Just did that test. When FBA is done on a CF card, then sealed, and >> > clone, all works well. The issue only happens when a hard drive is >> > used to perform the FBA process. >> > Strange. >> >> > Kareem >> >> > On Jul 5, 12:37 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> >> > wrote: >> >> As a test, have you tried running FBA on the CF card, and then recopy >> >> the >> >> image back to the CF card? >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com >> >> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit >> >> >> <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message >> >> >>news:1183642858.270860.28700[ at ]n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com... >> >> >> >I just tried fbreseal without the -keepmount option thinking that >> >> > might have had an effect. No success. >> >> >> > Kareem >> >> >> > On Jul 5, 8:39 am, kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a >> >> >> transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. > >> > >> >> >> Kareem >> >> >> >> On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- >> >> >> >> csas.net.au> wrote: >> >> >> > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" >> >> >> >> > > Any thought on what the problem might be? >> >> >> >> > Are you using RAM Reg mode? >> >> >> >> > -- >> >> >> > -Mike > >

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_liming[ at ]sjjmicro.com> 11.07.2007 17:16:59 You can clone the EWF parition with Norton Ghost. There is a special command line option that allows you to do this. Regards, Sean Liming www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit "Gert Leunen" <Gert.Leunen[ at ]newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message news:utT6hB6wHHA.4628[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I don't think you can clone the EWF partition to other systems: it needs to >be recreated at the target system. This EWF partition creation is scheduled >as an FBA phase (65520 to be exact). I usually apply manual reseal (reseal >set at phase 0) and right before I execute the fbreseal command, I lookup >this partition creation instruction in the registry and set its FBAWasHere >value back to 0 (in >HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbedded\FBA; so far I've only >seen one key that starts with a 4, and that's the one - description is >"Creates the EWF partition", but the key name changes each time you create >a new image, at least it always starts with 4). If you use automatic reseal >(configured at phase 12000), you can still offline edit the system registry >hive after sealing has completed. > > Then copy all but the EWF partition and leave enough space on the target > harddisk for that EWF partition to be created: it'll do so on the first > run (FBA seal break; by the way, I find it funny that since Update Rollup > 1 it now says something like "resealing in progress", I don't think that's > the case...). > > Best regards, > > Gert Leunen > R&D International NV > > <kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1183740136.464741.207430[ at ]q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... >> Alright. >> >> Thanks for the help. I'll just designate one CF card as the >> sacrificial FBA card. >> >> Cheers, >> Kareem >> >> On Jul 5, 7:43 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> >> wrote: >>> Actually this is a very old issue. One of the early XPe white papers or >>> help >>> files suggested to run the FBA on a hard drive than transfer over to a >>> CF. >>> Many people tried this and ran into problems. Best practice is to run >>> FBA on >>> the flash drive to begin with. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com >>> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit >>> >>> <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message >>> >>> news:1183663775.402749.172560[ at ]w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... >>> >>> > Just did that test. When FBA is done on a CF card, then sealed, and >>> > clone, all works well. The issue only happens when a hard drive is >>> > used to perform the FBA process. >>> > Strange. >>> >>> > Kareem >>> >>> > On Jul 5, 12:37 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> As a test, have you tried running FBA on the CF card, and then recopy >>> >> the >>> >> image back to the CF card? >>> >>> >> Regards, >>> >>> >> Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com >>> >> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit >>> >>> >> <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message >>> >>> >>news:1183642858.270860.28700[ at ]n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com... >>> >>> >> >I just tried fbreseal without the -keepmount option thinking that >>> >> > might have had an effect. No success. >>> >>> >> > Kareem >>> >>> >> > On Jul 5, 8:39 am, kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >>> >> >> Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a >>> >> >> transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. >> >>> >> >>> >> >> Kareem >>> >>> >> >> On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- >>> >>> >> >> csas.net.au> wrote: >>> >> >> > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >>> >> >> > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" >>> >>> >> >> > > Any thought on what the problem might be? >>> >>> >> >> > Are you using RAM Reg mode? >>> >>> >> >> > -- >>> >> >> > -Mike >> >> > >

Re: EWF broken after fbreseal + clone APSFlorida 12.07.2007 15:40:00 Sean, I've been through most of what is described in this thread over the last 6 month, but I have a question: Can the hidden EWF partition be removed, so that the basic image can be moved via simple format & copy to different media, and then recreate the hidden EWF partition? I found that once the Hidden EWF partition was created, I had to stay with media that reported the same size to be able to clone the media (CF). As an aside, how do I ensure that each cloned CF will have a different computer name to avoid the message "A duplicate name exist on the network" when I run multiple units on the same network? Regards, Aaron "Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote: [Quoted Text] > You can clone the EWF parition with Norton Ghost. There is a special command > line option that allows you to do this. > > Regards, > > Sean Liming > www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com > Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit > > > > "Gert Leunen" <Gert.Leunen[ at ]newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message > news:utT6hB6wHHA.4628[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > >I don't think you can clone the EWF partition to other systems: it needs to > >be recreated at the target system. This EWF partition creation is scheduled > >as an FBA phase (65520 to be exact). I usually apply manual reseal (reseal > >set at phase 0) and right before I execute the fbreseal command, I lookup > >this partition creation instruction in the registry and set its FBAWasHere > >value back to 0 (in > >HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbedded\FBA; so far I've only > >seen one key that starts with a 4, and that's the one - description is > >"Creates the EWF partition", but the key name changes each time you create > >a new image, at least it always starts with 4). If you use automatic reseal > >(configured at phase 12000), you can still offline edit the system registry > >hive after sealing has completed. > > > > Then copy all but the EWF partition and leave enough space on the target > > harddisk for that EWF partition to be created: it'll do so on the first > > run (FBA seal break; by the way, I find it funny that since Update Rollup > > 1 it now says something like "resealing in progress", I don't think that's > > the case...). > > > > Best regards, > > > > Gert Leunen > > R&D International NV > > > > <kareemsultan[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1183740136.464741.207430[ at ]q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > >> Alright. > >> > >> Thanks for the help. I'll just designate one CF card as the > >> sacrificial FBA card. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Kareem > >> > >> On Jul 5, 7:43 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> > >> wrote: > >>> Actually this is a very old issue. One of the early XPe white papers or > >>> help > >>> files suggested to run the FBA on a hard drive than transfer over to a > >>> CF. > >>> Many people tried this and ran into problems. Best practice is to run > >>> FBA on > >>> the flash drive to begin with. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com > >>> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit > >>> > >>> <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > >>> > >>> news:1183663775.402749.172560[ at ]w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > >>> > >>> > Just did that test. When FBA is done on a CF card, then sealed, and > >>> > clone, all works well. The issue only happens when a hard drive is > >>> > used to perform the FBA process. > >>> > Strange. > >>> > >>> > Kareem > >>> > >>> > On Jul 5, 12:37 pm, "Sean Liming \(MVP\)" <sean_lim...[ at ]sjjmicro.com> > >>> > wrote: > >>> >> As a test, have you tried running FBA on the CF card, and then recopy > >>> >> the > >>> >> image back to the CF card? > >>> > >>> >> Regards, > >>> > >>> >> Sean Limingwww.sjjmicro.com/www.seanliming.com > >>> >> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit > >>> > >>> >> <kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message > >>> > >>> >>news:1183642858.270860.28700[ at ]n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > >>> > >>> >> >I just tried fbreseal without the -keepmount option thinking that > >>> >> > might have had an effect. No success. > >>> > >>> >> > Kareem > >>> > >>> >> > On Jul 5, 8:39 am, kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > >>> >> >> Sorry. Forgot to mention that. Yes Ram-Reg. And the CF card is a > >>> >> >> transcend industrial. We've been using them for a while now. > >> > >>> > >> > >>> >> >> Kareem > >>> > >>> >> >> On Jul 4, 10:05 pm, "Mike Warren" <miwa-not-this-...[ at ]or-this- > >>> > >>> >> >> csas.net.au> wrote: > >>> >> >> > kareemsul...[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > >>> >> >> > > "Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1" > >>> > >>> >> >> > > Any thought on what the problem might be? > >>> > >>> >> >> > Are you using RAM Reg mode? > >>> > >>> >> >> > -- > >>> >> >> > -Mike > >> > >> > > > > > >