Can't disable EWF with CF

**crooper** · 08-30-2007, 12:19 PM

Okay so I finally got my ExtremeIII CF to boot Windows. YAY (although it's no 10 second boot, sigh slow BIOS). I turned on EWF to protect the volume. Now I want to make a couple changes, so I hit "ewfmgr c: disableandcommit -live" and it hangs. Any solutions for this?

**SFiorito** · 08-30-2007, 04:26 PM

The command is: ewfmgr c: -commitanddisable -live

Not sure why it's hanging though....

**crooper** · 08-30-2007, 07:46 PM

Yeah that's it, I have the enable and disable in bat files on my desktop, so I don't really remember what the syntax is.

Does ewf care if it's set to a fixed drive or whatever?

**blk02si** · 08-30-2007, 08:42 PM

If you have made a lot of changes to the protected volume the command does not hang, it takes a few minutes to complete. Be patient, or turn off EWF before making changes, make your changes, then re-enable it. I once sent that command after updated a ton of stuff and it sat there for 3 minutes before it wrote all the changes from ram to flash.

**crooper** · 08-31-2007, 01:08 AM

Can I turn it off, make changes, and then re-enable, then reboot and have everything changed? I'll give this a try, thanks! I've been using EWF on my hard drive for the past few months and haven't ever had it take longer than a blink of an eye.