XPe corruption with sudden power failure using flash module

> Hi,
>
> We have an XPe system running on an IDE flash module with a battery power
> supply. We've had situations in which the battery goes dead suddenly and when
> we reboot with a new battery, we get a BSOD indicating bad config list during
> reboot.
>
> Sudden power failures do not seem to corrupt Win XP systems running on a
> hard drive. Does anyone know whether the XPe corruption is due to the fact
> that it's XPe or is it due to running the system on a flash drive.
>
> Is there any way to prevent such corruption with a sudden power failure.
> Does anyone have any experience with this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Art

> Art,
>
> We use XPe on CF, and initially deployed without EWF. We had frequent file
> system corruptions due to sudden power loss. As you stated, these
> corruptions
> did not occur nearly as frequently with a hard drive.
>
> I attributed the corruptions to the much slower (Sometimes 10x) write
> speed
> of the CF. It makes the "window" for corruption much greater. Eventually
> we
> went to EWF protection of all OS-required files, and have not seen the
> corruption issues since. EWF gives us other headaches, though, like
> updating
> files and virus signatures...
>
> "artrab" wrote:
>

>> Hi,
>>
>> We have an XPe system running on an IDE flash module with a battery power
>> supply. We've had situations in which the battery goes dead suddenly and
>> when
>> we reboot with a new battery, we get a BSOD indicating bad config list
>> during
>> reboot.
>>
>> Sudden power failures do not seem to corrupt Win XP systems running on a
>> hard drive. Does anyone know whether the XPe corruption is due to the
>> fact
>> that it's XPe or is it due to running the system on a flash drive.
>>
>> Is there any way to prevent such corruption with a sudden power failure.
>> Does anyone have any experience with this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Art