Problems with Eval. Target Designer

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Hi All.

I'm trying to use the evaluaton version of WinXP Embedded (SP2). But i'm
having a bit of a difficulty trying to make an image.

I followed the MS tutorial in the help files for building an image. When the
build process is done, i copy the files created to an empty hard disk
(formatted NTFS, default allocation size), but when i reboot it seems bios
cannot boot from that drive.

am i missing something obvious here?
 
The hard disk partition with the image is Active? The image has been done to
be set in the partition 1 of the first hard disk? ( in Settings of your
image, select "target device settings" "Boot arc path" set as multi(0)
disk(0) rdisk(0) partition(1) )
How have you made the file transfer from dev system to the target HD?
Hi Raffaele
 
Hi, and thanks for helping out.

Yes the partition is active, and the partition # and arc path correspond.
The image itself is built on a development machine, and then accessed via the
network from the target machine (running full-fledged XP) with the target HD
as a slave. The files are then copied over the network to the slave (target)
HD.
 
Here's a thought.. pretty far out but still.

When i run TAP.EXE on the target machine to get the device list, i was
running full windows XP, but my target HD was set as slave. Could this be a
driver issue, where TAP thought i intended to use the master HD as my target
HD?

The master at the time was a 20 GB MDT drive, and my target HD (set as slave
when running TAP) is a 10 GB WD Caviar.

I would think that the drivers would be generic enough to allow either
drive.. but maybe not?
 
No, TAP isn't related to the target HD dimension, it simply check devices
and you should have Primary and Secondary IDE components. Have you set in
your image settings "target device settings" boot partition size to 5000 to
accomodate for Caviar's dimension? In the image you should find:
NTDETECT.COM NTLDR WERUNTIME.INI BOOT.INI and folders Windows Program Files
and Documents.
I suppose that your Caviar disk has been formatted as slave in the target
machine by means of an XP pro system Disk Manager, then the master MDT drive
has been pulled off and Caviar disk set as master booted.
Hi Raffaele
 
Yes i set the part. size to 5000 as specified in the tutorial, and the
mentioned files are present.

What i failed to mention earlier is that i get the STOP 0x7B, the second
parameter is 0xC0000034, and MS suggests this appears when the drivers for
the hard disk is bad, that's why i suspected that maybe this could be the
problem?
 
Drivers used for disk drive or chipset init are missing or wrong.
I had this error, even with all drivers ok, I solved it after the ULTRA DMA
flag has been disabled in the Bios setup. Hope that helps
Raffaele
 
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