Mike Warren wrote:

> Tomorrow, I'll get a brand new disk, create exactly the same partition
> setup as the disks that don't work, and build my image from scratch.

This problem has nothing to do with FBWF.

After going around in circles for several hours I removed FBWF and
rebuilt the image.

Here is my procedure and results:

1/ Copy pre-FBA image to a hard drive connected to my system by a
USB-SATA adaptor.

2/ Connect the drive to a target machine via SATA and run FBA.

3/ Reconnect to my dev machine and copy all the files except System
Volume Information folder to a compressed recovery file with my custom
recovery program.

4/ Burn this recovery file on a boot CD along with my recovery program.

5/ Reconnect the hard drive to the target machine.

6/ Boot the recovery CD, which formats C: and then extracts all files
from the recovery image.

At this point EWF works fine.

7/ Connect a new hard drive to the target device and perform a recovery
from the boot CD again.

EWF fails here.

8/ Try an existing target device that is known to work with my older
XPe builds and the same recovery procedure.

EWF fails again.

9/ Recover my old SP2 (pre FP2007) based build to this same machine.

EWF works fine.


So... What has changed since SP2 that may cause this behaviour?

This is more serious than I originally thought because I can't
currently release a build with EWF at all.

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- Mike