Explanation for error 8

[Sean Graansma]

version 0.2 r23 win32
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit (also tried on 32 bit, gave same error and same solution)
img i am writing: ChromeOS-Vanilla-0.8.71.2010_10_28_1957-rdb7d4e77

I think i know why some people are getting error 8,
at least for me it was because diskimager was trying to acces the floppy drive, while no floppy was inserted.
So i disabled my floppy drive, restarted computer and the program starts without any error.
When i enable the floppy drive again, reboot and start the program it errors out again.

Maybe that's an minor bug for people with an floppy drive?
I don't know if the error will affect any problems while writing to the usb stick, but still its kinda anoiing.

Hope this helped

Sean.

[Itzalive (peter-itzalive)]

I dont have a floppy drive but it still get error 8 looking for drive A: (what should be floppy)

I'm on Windows 7 professional 32bit

As i dont have a floppy drive i cant disable it.

[Thilo Planz (thilo-cpan)]

I got "Error 8" as well, but unrelated to floppy drives (which my machine does not have).

In my case, it was just the image file being on a path with spaces and Chinese characters in them (the default download folder for Chinese Windows). Moving the image file to C:/ fixed it.

[Bosas (jowgod)]

I also have error 8 but i have windows 7 professional 64 bit and don't have a floppy drive. I was installing it directly to an SD card in the card reader. The IMG i was trying to get on there was Google OS Cherry when you try writing it gives the error code.

[Torrentula (orwar)]

Just copy the Image to the directory of the program. I also set the compatibility Mode to "Windows XP Service Pack 3". You should run the program as admin.

This at least helped for me

greets

Torrentula

[Roman Ripa (roman-ripa)]

I have Win 7 32 SP1, no floppy, no DVD, just one hard disk, one USB plugged in, running as admin and still receive error 8..

Roman

[Ken (ken-faubel)]

I have Win7 x64 ultimate with SP1. The image (nookhoney04.img) is just under 4GB and the SD card is 8GB (as reported by windows).

On startup I get 5 popups with "Error 8" and then the app opens up. I can load the img file just fine and the default drive is my microSD card. When I click on write I get an error saying "Not enough space is free" and nothing is written.

I reformatted the microSD with the default setting and the result is FAT32 with 7.39GB free.

I have closed all other apps, no change.

I have tried this on a couple of PCs and I aways get the same result.

Just to test the reader and the microSD, I copied the img to the file system on the microSD card. It took 25 minutes but was successful so I know at least the hardware is working.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Ken

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

This may be fixed with the latest release v0.4 (uploaded today). Please try this version and if it still fails, reopen this bug, thanks.

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