Blue Screen of Death on XP Embed load

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Samuel Fogarty

Hi - new user to Windows Embedded Studio - have got SP2 installed.

I stepped through the 'Tutorial: Building and Deploying a Run-Time Image'
from start to finish in the Target Designer help, but on my reboot, after
selecting embedded xp as my OS, it gets as far as the embedded xp flash
screen briefly, before the blue screen of death happens. I am not sure how
to proceed with debugging.

I have the target hardrive plugged into my development PC and am just
copying across my build image.

As the tutorial instructed, I used 'tap.exe' to find what my PC needs to
run, and added the 'Devices' component that it created. I added the other
components specified in the tutorial: NTFS, NT Loader, NTFS Format, English
Language and User Interface Core and configured them with my limited
knowledge. What is the likelyhood that tap did not function correctly? What
is my next step? I have hit a bit of a brick wall here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Yes, that is the error. I now have some idea of how to proceed, thank you.
Although, the document lists as the cause of the problem as being that I
used ta.exe instead of tap.exe, which is not true. I am using tap.exe in xp
pro and still getting this error. Sounds like a bug in tap.exe to me.
Still, the fact that there appears to be a driver missing at least lets me
know the problem, hopefully. I will try to identify all the drivers manually
and see how I go.

Thanks for your help.
 
It is an 80 gigabyte IDE Seagate drive using NTFS. I have yet to get
embedded XP to work under any conditions. I don't understand why the tap.exe
seems to be failing.
 
I have gotten a working version of XP embedded now - not working for my
target system yet, but that is another story. I've been doing quite a few
things, but I think the difference was running tap.exe on my laptop and
using the output from that, rather than what tap.exe produced on my PC.
Slowly getting there...hopefully.
 
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