windows setup failed to open distribution share d:\ds when trying to run the windows embedded standard 7 image builder wizard

Question

The wizard fails with: windows setup failed to open distribution share d:\ds (..etc)

I am running it from a USB disk that has over 4GB free space, all the other files and folders are shown in the DS folder ok

Please advise what i should do here?

Does the drive need to be a certain format? its FAT32 at the moment (not NTFS, so no security)

I have tried copying the contents of the wes7-ibw iso to another USB drive and the same thing happens.

Answer 1

setuperr.log states the following:

2012-09-13 15:56:40, Error      [0x060705] IBS    InitializeDS: failed to open Distribution Share [D:\ds] with error (0x80070002).
2012-09-13 15:56:40, Error                 IBS    CalculateConfigurationFootprintThreadProc: Failed to initialize Distribution Share object with error 0x80070002
2012-09-13 15:56:40, Error                 IBS    CalculateSpaceNeededForWindows: Failed to calculate footprint for configuration with error 0x80070002[gle=0x00000490]
2012-09-13 15:56:40, Error      [0x0601aa] IBS    Callback_CalculateDiskSpaceRequirements:An error occurred while collecting disk space requirements ErrorCode is [0x80070002][gle=0x00000490]

Answer 2

The system might be confused on the drive lettering. NTFS must be used for the IBW disk. Are there other drives in the system?

-Sean

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Answer 3

please try to uninstalled the other devices ,and save the hardisk and memory only . maybe you can solve this problem.

Answer 4

Thanks guys, the problem was so long ago i can't even remeber how i solved it. :)