Problem with deice IDs on CD bootable system

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JustinH

Please could someone help me by explaining just what is going on with
disk IDs.
We have a system, built and working, which boots from a DVD. Also in
the system is a hard drive with two partitions, one is the partition
that was used to run FBA, and the second is used to hold application
program and data. The latter always appears as drive D: during FBA and
when run from DVD. The FBA boot partition changes to drive F: since I
swapped the drive names in the registry after doing ewfmgr -enable, and
etprep -delete. (EWF RAM REG mode).
Now, so far all is well, but if I move my DVD to another computer, same
make and model but with its own DVD drive and hard disk, then i get a
'new device' message at boot up. This is unfortunate because I have no
mouse or keyboard to get rid of it. I have seen other posts where this
happened with a different CD/DVD drive, but I have tried it with the
same physical drive in a different computer and still get the message.
Please can someone let me know if theis is due to the HD having a
different signature - and if so how to overcome this in a general
deployment - or if the problem is due to the hard drive being formatted
differently? If I use a different Hard drive with two partitions (not
identical to the FBA drive), then the first partition becomes D: rather
than the second (I can live with that), but I still get the new device
message. I know that I can suppress the message box by excluding the
newdevice.dll but I would like to understand what is going on and find
a better generic solution if possible - it must be possible to
distribute on DVD's without getting these messages mustnt it?
Confused

Justin
 
Hello JustinH,
Please could someone help me by explaining just what is going on with
disk IDs.
Click to expand...

There is way to disable such a messages - you can google this new group,
or just wait for other person response :-)

I can also propose you to write a simple application that runs in
background and checks for a particular windows presence and either close
them or send any appropriate commands. For instance it can check for the
window with caption "New Hardware Found..." and send a CANCEL button to
it. Or even Next, Next, Finish or something like this. So virtually you
can emulate user presense in a suitable way.
 
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