Can a driver thats compiled on windows XP Professional be inserted on windows 2k3

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Hi,

I have written a small filter driver and have compiled it on windows
XP professional.

Can I insert this driver on windows 2k3 ?

I tried inserting it on windows 2k3, but, I got the following error -

instdrv.exe TestDriver MyDriver.sys
CreateService SUCCESS
failure: StartService (0x02)
Can’t get a handle to \.\TestDriver

I can insert it successfully on windows XP professional where I have
compiled it.

Any inputs ?

Thanks in Advance,
Vinay

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This should work (I use XP as my dev system and mainly develop for 2k3 and
2k8). We need more data to help.

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Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr
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“Vinay Kalkoti” wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have written a small filter driver and have compiled it on windows
> XP professional.
>
> Can I insert this driver on windows 2k3 ?
>
> I tried inserting it on windows 2k3, but, I got the following error -
>
> instdrv.exe TestDriver MyDriver.sys
> CreateService SUCCESS
> failure: StartService (0x02)
> Can’t get a handle to \.\TestDriver
>
> I can insert it successfully on windows XP professional where I have
> compiled it.
>
> Any inputs ?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Vinay
>