Hell-Stopper

sfiorito so can u email me these files u have listed???? we then can try to get sum one to host it.

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knubile

Does anybody have any idea how to get hibernation to work with EWF? I want to try to get XP installed on a Compact Flash card so it'll survive winter here in Ottawa, Canada. That way I can hook my laptop drive as a removable USB device.

SFiorito

you're not going to be able to use hibernation because think about how it works: it writes your RAM to disk... which is protected by EWF. An option is to run the "ewfmgr c: -commitanddisable -live" to turn ewf off and then hibernate. Actually, no that won't work because then EWF will be turned off when you come out of hibernation. I think your best bet is to disable any unnecessary services and startup programs, run bootvis, and defrag your drive before you set EWF and just use a regular bootup. I don't know if it's possible to set the hibernation file on another drive (not protected by EWF), but that would be your only possibility.

On a side note... anyone else getting the "error booting up" windows message when you reboot? I didn't get it on VirtualPC, but I'm getting it on my epia system. I wonder if windows writes something to disk saying it booted up successfully, but since it's filtered by ewf windows doesn't see it on reboot and gives me that message. I just select start windows normally and everything is fine, so if I keep seeing it I may just disable the error bootup screen.

Another question: is there any significant speed difference between CF cards? I'm looking at getting a 512MB or maybe 1GB CF card to use with an nLite WinXP install, but I was wondering if certain cards have faster read speeds??

This has really reinvigorated my mp3car project!! Unfortunately because of school I had to set this aside, but this ewf thing came about just in time for the holiday break!!

knubile

I tried it in VMware. It seems to be working. I made changes to the file system and rebooted. The changes were gone. One problem though. Everytime it boots I get the error where it says
"We apologize for the inconvenience... blah blah blah, but windows did not start successfully. blah blah blah, giving me the options to start in safe mode or normallly.
I select start normally and it boots no problem with all changes reverted. Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

Note: I could import any registry files into the registry. I got a permissions error(yes i set everone's persmissions to Full Control). I had to input everything manually.

I'm getting excited about this. It'll be amazing if I can get this to work with hibernation!

SWC

SFiorito is going to email me the files then I will upload them for you guys.

SFiorito

knubile: yeah, I get the same thing. I didn't get it in VirtualPC (at least I don't remember getting it). I think the best bet is to just disable the recovery options in the System bootup settings. See my post above regarding hibernation... I did a quick search and it doesn't look like relocating the hiberfil.sys file is possible. Sorry man, but there's some drawbacks to using ewf unfortunately.

knubile

SFiorito. I didn't see that last post. Looks like you and I are trying to accomplish the exact same thing. CF card etc..
I can't figure out how yet, but the goal would be to have the system come out of hibernation every time regardless of how it was shutdown. Google for "EWF and hibernation". MS says it's possible. I just can't find anything detailing how.
I think the key question is how does windows now to resume from hibernation instead of a boot up regularly. If there's a way to put it in that state then enable EWF, then actually hibernate, I think it will work. This is assuming hibernation is detected by looking for a file or a registry key.

1. Disable EWF.
2. Hibernate from preferred state.
3. Resume
4. Set hibernated flag
5. Enable EWF

Shouldn't this had the hiberfil.sys file and the flag protected by ewf now? They key unknown here is step 4.

Anyone?

SFiorito

Oh okay, I see what you're saying now... and that makes perfect sense. Set the system in a "hibernation state" at the time you set EWF so that it always comes out of hibernation at the same state everytime. Makes sense! There's gotta be some boot setting we can find. Hmm... don't know how you can go about finding that... It would definitely be a good thing to have!

SWC

Files are up at http://test.crimsonstain.net/EWF.zip

Thanks

jcdillin

wow, i'm going to have to play with this. that would be awesome to be able to always resume instead of having to boot.

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Heezzi

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...ght=Ready+Boot

Hell-Stopper

ahhh great progress good work i have to admit keep it up im going to test this tomorrow. cheers

knubile

I looked at ReadyOn. It would do it i think. But I don't think we can get single licenses. Besides. I bet it's nothing more than what we're trying to figure out. If we can do this, it'll be much better than using a 3rd party app.

knubile

Ok. Somebody try this.
Make sure you have EWF working(although I still get that windows failed to start up successfully message).
At a command prompt type

ewfmgr C: -commitanddisable

Reboot the system. You are now in a normal system with the filter turned off.

Go to power management and make sure hibernation is enabled.

At a command prompt type

ewfmgr C: -enable

Now go into hibernate.

My system started to resume from hibernate, then near the end of the resume progress bar I got a BSOD that immediately disappear and the system rebooted and start a regular boot process. I have no idea what happened, but it's something. I''m hoping this is because my system can't boot up properly with EWF enabled anyways. Can someone without that issue please try this?

Heezzi

All you do is buy the SDK which is $25 make the hibernation image and then EWF it.

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