WinXp Disk Driver questions

I’m using WinXp RC1. I am seeing during OS installation (text-mode and
GUI-mode) that the partition manager and the fault tolerant disk driver are
not running. They are actually loaded but their AddDevice Routines are
never called. My disk driver comes up running fine, but for some reason the
partition manager does not get hit with an AddDevice. It has caused me to
play some games with the Volume manager to install the OS. The OS installs
to a RAW disk and it’s DOS Link is C:. The entire OS sees only C: during
installation. After installation, the system starts up and all of sudden,
the partition manager loads and runs. The FtDisk driver loads and runs. An
E: drive is created. I notice in the registry that their are 2 instances
for my disk driver. One is marked as /ROOT/LEGACY_DRIVER the other the
enumeration created by my software bus driver that is the parent to my disk
driver.

1)Where the hell did the /ROOT/LEGACY_DRIVER instance come from?
2)Why isn’t the partition manager and fault tolerant drivers not running
during OS installation?

Thanks In Advance,
Joe


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