Question

I am trying to debug my Windows Phone 7 app, and I am getting the following error upon launching the app in the emulator (via VS2010 debug):

Unable to start program
‘\Windows\tashost.exe\’
The drive cannot locate a specific area or track.

Any ideas as what may be causing this? The most recent change I made was adding functionality to save game data, via the IsolatedStorageFile. However, it was working for a while with this functionality in there.

Answer 1

I found the problem. If only I had read the release notes. For anyone else that might be experiencing this issue, it is addressed in the WPDT Beta Release Notes.

Release Notes – WPDT Beta 7/16/2010

Unable to start program error if
project not configured to build or
deploy. If a project is not configured
to build and or deploy a game, the
operation will fail with the following
error message:

Unable to start program
‘\Windows\taskhost.exe’.
The drive cannot locate a specific area or track
on the disk.

To set a game project to
build or deploy: In Visual Studio 2010
Express for Windows Phone, click
Tools, then click Settings, then click
Expert Settings to enable the Solution
Configurations drop-down. From the
Solution Configurations drop-down in
the standard toolbar, select
Configuration Manager. Check the Build
and Deploy checkboxes.