SDI/System Volume Information folder woes.

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I am in the process of trying to use http://www.schau.com/gz/howto/xpevmware/
tutorial to create a vmware xpe guest. I have followed the tutorial's
instructions
but when I attempt to the write to the SDI disk

I thought I had this figured out back (I have been away from XPe for
more than
a year)

I was told that:

Target Designer attempts to clear the contents of the folder
you build to before it starts building, so that it doesn't have to
worry
about overwriting files and having extra files present in the
destination
folder. When building to a root folder, TD will attempt to clear the
entire
contents of the volume, and this process will fail if System Restore
happens
to be monitoring the volume (System Restore will place a hidden folder
named
"System Volume Information" in the root of each drive it monitors).

So I turned off System monitoring on the SDI disk but I am still
getting the dreaded message from Target Designer:

Target Designer was unable to clear the contents of the destination
folder that you have specified.
Please check the permissions on these files.

thanks,
black_13
 
Are you building directly to the SDI mounted folder (drive)??
Why don't you build the image to just a regular folder on your disk on the development machine and then copy over the files over to
the SDI mounted drive?

As to the System Restore. Check if you have that "System Volume Information" hidden system folder at the root of the attached SDI
drive. If you, can you delete it? If you cannot that means the VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) service is still running and locking up that
folder.
 
I was unable to remove the System Volume Information but however the
Volume Shadow Copy Service
is not running. Odd.
black_13
 
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