Q:

windows phone 7 ctp - drive cannot locate a specific area or track on the disk

Have just installed Windows Phone 7 CTP (Visual Studio 2010 Express)
When I deploy the emulator loads but the deployment crashes with the following error.
Can anyone help please?

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
Unable to start program '\Windows\taskhost.exe'.
The drive cannot locate a specific area or track on the disk.

A:

My issue was partly caused by also installing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - it seems theres some slight compatibility issues between the CTP (Visual Studio 2010 Express) and Visual Studio Proper.
However I'm still struggling a bit on my home PC and have to use the following work around:
I deploy the app first (right click on the solution, deploy) - nothing appears in the emulator at this point.
Then when I run the app in Visual Studio in the usual manner it now appears in the emulator and I can debug etc.  
I have to use this deploy then run process to see any changes.  If I just run then I don't get the latest changes - but at least the error discussed has stopped!
I've noticed that the emulator gets a lot more sluggish doing this, when I'm at work and just pressing the Run button things seems to run a great deal more smoothly.
Hope this helps someone!

