2009/6/4 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>: > > On 2009-06-04 at 00:59:17 [+0200], David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2009/6/4 Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM, David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Yes, drive setup has never worked for me. I can only format bfs >> >> partitions using the build process. >> >> >> >> Does this work for anyone? Or is there something special about my setup? >> > >> > I can usually initialize an existing partition as BFS with DriveSetup. >> > You just select the partition in question, and usually the "Initialize >> > as BFS" option (or whatever it's called) becomes available in the >> > menu. >> > >> > However, I have seen this fail on some occasions, but I don't know >> > offhand when that was, or what was causing it. >> >> Always fails with the PrepareModifications call. (Both drivesetup and >> makefs) >> >> PrepareModifications calls _CreateDelegates which fails. I have not >> tracked it further. >> >> So I guess there is a delegate somewhere that fails to init. > > Yes, I believe the problem is that PrepareModifications() tries to create > delegates for all partitions, which currently fails for known but unsupported > FS types. Ah, ok. So either the 3 NTFS partitions or the blank one is causing it to fail. So if there is no bug report for this I will raise it to trac. -- Cheers David