Any Conflicts with FirstDefense + ATI + PerfectDisk?

Hello all

I am trialing First Defense-ISR and would like to know if any conflicts exist with Acronis True Image 9.0 and PerfectDisk 7.0. What do I have to keep in mind when using FD-ISR?

I already own PerfectDisk and ATI and think FD-ISR would complement ATI.
Tips are very much appreciated.

Frank

 

Hi Frank1971

Perfect Disk and FD-ISR are compatible (both from Raxco).

I don't know about ATI, as I don't have any need for imaging software with FD-ISR installed.

 

Thank you betauser2.

So one question left. Can I make a disk image with FD-ISR installed? Are my snapshots still usable if I boot from this image?

Thanks.

 

I honestly don't know, hopefully someone else can come in to answer your question.

I have one snapshot with a fresh installation of XP installed, one primary shot that I use and one backup of my primary shot. I have all my data backed up on a different partition (inc. Firefox browser profile etc) and all my data files backed up on DVD-RWs.

 

Please read the following threads,

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=119792&highlight=acronis

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=144328&highlight=acronis

Hope they help

betauser2

 

Appreciate your pointers betauser2.

I think I have got the answer here:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=144328&highlight=acronis

Really encouraging.

Frank

 

Great minds think alike

 

TI 8 and 9.1 are fine with FD - never tried 7 but can see no reason why it would not work

 

Thanks for the confirmation Pete.

Frank

 

I've tested FDISR, ATI and FDISR + ATI thoroughly and it never failed during 6 months and it still works. ATI recovers everything : MBR + all snapshots, if you do it right.
Even when you forget to restore the MBR in ATI, you still can recover the MBR by enabling the Pre-boot of FDISR after restoration.

FDISR can also be your second backup solution, if you archive each snapshot.
FDISR is the fastest backup solution, I've ever seen. Only the first archived snapshot takes a litte longer. After that, it's nothing but refreshing the existing archived snapshot, a matter of seconds or a few minuts.

ATI + FDISR makes you feel invincible, one of the psychological side-effects of this combination.

 

Hi Peter2150

It's not an assumption as I (personally) have no need for imaging software, what else can I say? You can see my methodology in post #4. I don't use FD-ISR archives (feature) as backup.

Now ASSUMING I have a total disk failure, no sweat as I would (God willing) have all of my data backed up on DVD-RWs (soon to be external HD) I can simply reinstall my OS on a new hard drive, and I'm ready to go (after an hour or so).

 

Didn't know that an archived snapshot can be refreshed that fast. Great. My initial secondary snapshot took 20 min for around 5 GByte. This was a bit slower than ATI's disk imaging (15 min for 5 GByte).

Thanks for sharing your knowledge Erik.

 

Ok So heres my question: If I Install PerfectDisk 8 after installing,and creating a secondary snapshot with FDISR will it move some data or stuff, when I defrag with PerfectDisk? as I read that I might not get the FDISR boot screen If I use a defragger,as it may alter some MBR records?. Secondly It took a few hours to Copy from Primary to Secondary, and afterwards iwhen it was finished it said there was 2 Errors, is this OK? as I dont see in the logfile what the errors were/are.

 

To view the Activity Log and "Details", you have to do this :
1. Open FDISR
2. Click on Tools
3. Click on View Activity Log
4. Click on the BLUE PLUS SIGN of the approperiate copy/update and you will get the DETAILS of that copy/update.
In the "Details" you can see the errors.

You can also export the detail report to a log-file that can be read with Notepad.

Any activity that results in one or more errors is ABNORMAL and you have to redo it.

You can't run PerfectDisk during any FDISR-activity. You better run PerfectDisk on demand.
PerfectDisk never did anything wrong with my MBR.

For the record : I use PerfectDisk + FDISR + ATI myself and never had any problems with all three during six months.

 

I cant see the errors the errors apparently there is 2 so it says. I'm deleting the secondary snapshot. I ean CHKDSK to scan my Hard disk for errors etc.. it replaced some damaged clusters, could this be the cause of the errors? Also I am going to install PerfectDisk 8 and defrag my computer, and I will run a tool to fixup any registry erors too, then I will create a secondary image again. I'll chack back in the morning, its 3am here now and I must sleep

 

@DVD+R

WOW
How big is your "C"?
12G here and ~ 40 minutes for new snapshot with task default "high priority".
What rating your CPU and HD?

Very dispiriting seeing the 2 errors isn't it.
Causes some uncertainty.
It may be hard to find those 2 errors in the log and the description may not really be helpful

Pete's advice is sound: redo the copy update and it should take ~5 minutes and will most likely not redo the errors.
Be careful with any other running processes: there may be some problem although I have not really seen any yet.

Regards.

 

OK! Megashit Alert, I just had total meltdown of My PC I was updating from microsoft updates site, and firstly it said that the update for Microsoft Net Frameworlk 1.1 failed! So I though Ok no big deal, then I rebooted like required, and Heaven & Hell let loose on My system. It rebooted to the point where that screen with the scrolling blue bars go across where it says Windows Xp Microsoft ( follow me so far? ) the screen just before the welcome screen. It would NOT go to the welcome screen, my screen was black (totally black) it was like this for 5 mins, so I powered off by on/off button on pc. I started up again, I got the Protected By FirstDefence ISR screen, then it booted to asking for safe mode etc.. So I chose safe mode, and I got the error message your system has NO! paging files Go to Control Panel/System/Performance Settings/Advanced/Change/Custom Size Initial or Maximum. The page file size was "0" so after I applied the recomended size/custom, I rebooted and that was it, my partion got completely deleted yet the First Defence Screen kept asking me If I wanted to boot to whenever, but it didnt work, my computer was in a loop, rebooting everytime it reached the windows xp screen. I couldnt repair via XP Install disk as it said there my partion needed formatting, and judging by the partion size, nothing was installed on my hard drive. TOTAL BUMMER! Ive just finished reformating and reintalling half of my stuff, What I want to know is could this be because of the errors I got when doing my first copy of the primary snapshot?, and would you recomend I reinstall FirstDefence, because this has really got me concerened it might happen again If I do. By the way Longboard, to answer your question on how big my Hard Drive is, its 250GB. I was thinking of Installing Rollback Rx, but I'm dubious about that, which is better FirstDefence or Rollback Rx?

 

DVD+R,
Don't you have an image backup/restore system to save you in such situation ?

 

@DVD+R
OUCH.
OK the HD is 250G but how big is "C" or primary partition?

Without knowing more about what you've got on your system it's hard to comment.
I can tell you that I had a situation recently where I had >2000 errors on a Primary>Secondary snapshot copy.
The system would always reboot to the primary, I did NOT try to boot to secondary.
Raxco fixed the problem very quickly.

Peter has tried very hard to blow-up FDISR both intentionally and by mistake
He may be better placed to give some more advice.
Contact RAxco: there are very proficient support peeples there.

I'm with E-A: make a good image before anything else now

FAQ:http://www.raxco.com/support/windows/fdisr/fdisr_faqs.cfm
There is a known conflict withBitdefender: http://www.raxco.com/support/windows/kb_details.cfm?kbid=533&issue=37
Other conflict issues: http://www.raxco.com/support/windows/kb_details.cfm?kbid=394

HTMH
Regards.

Edit:

Agree.

 

So here I am it took almost 9 hours to get to the stage where I am now, All programs re-installed, All updates Installed, All New versions IE7 & WMP v11 Installed, Majority of Music loaded back into My Music folder aprox 10.5GB (is this too much to Anchor in Documents for FirstDefence? If it is "Sod It!" I'm not! removing any. AntiVirus & Spyware Installed, cant decide on what Firewall though, I had Outpost 4.0 Pro but it was too heavy on resources at times, although a top notch Firewall. Looks like I'm just about ready to Rock & Roll again, I'll die If It happens again though