EWF disk overlay requirements

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Adrian Theodorescu

Hi All,

Is it possible to allocate the storage space for a disk overlay from an
existing volume that has enough free space on it or it is mandatory to have
unpartitioned space on the HDD?
What is the quickest solution to enable EWF on a system that has no
unpartitioned space? Can this be done somehow without repartitioning the
HDD?

Thank you,
Adrian
 
Adrian Theodorescu said:
Hi All,

Is it possible to allocate the storage space for a disk overlay from an
existing volume that has enough free space on it or it is mandatory to have
unpartitioned space on the HDD?
What is the quickest solution to enable EWF on a system that has no
unpartitioned space? Can this be done somehow without repartitioning the
HDD?
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You can have EWF without the partition - slobodan will no doubt jump in with
information on it soon - but you can only commitanddisable not just disable
the filter. This means you can reboot and lose all your changes, or reboot
and keep all your changes, but you can't reboot losing your changes and turn
off the filter in one step.
 
I can jump in :) but I don't understand problem that Adrian have.

If you want disk overlay, then you must repartition your disk.
If you want RAM overlay, then there is no need for any new partition on disk

If you want to install EWF on existing XPe image without Target Designer,
then this is another issue.

Please tell us what you want to do and why.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
I have an XPe image deployed on a large number of devices. It includes the
EWF component, so now I only have to enable it. The problem is that I want
to use a disk overlay, but the HDDs have no unpartitioned space left. Is
there any way I can avoid repartitioning (this would be a total disaster)?

Thank you,
Adrian
 
Sorry,

You must repartition disk or add new disk for disk overlay.
Also changing the size of OS partition could probably make trouble with
license check.

Or you can modify registry to enable RAM EWF if this is acceptable.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
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