Monday, February 16, 2009

[XP Embedded] HORM and EWF on multiple Partitions

HORM is a very good feature of XP Embedded. It speeds up the boot up time of XP Embedded. This features only works with Enhanced Write Filter. However, there are some cases where the system has multiple partitions. Basically for HORM to work well all these partitions must be protected with Enhanced Write Filter. But if of these partitions you wanted to have some data in a specific partition to be persistent and not filtered? Will this be an issue with HORM? Yes it will be since but their is a tricky work around for this, which is by dismounting the volume where the persistent data is located before the system goes to hibernation.

A good documentation is found in MSDN.

I also came upon a tool that addresses this same issue.
This is known as HORM Manager Lite.

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