FDISR and Vista problem

Hello all,

I am new here at the forum...as well as to using FirstDefense ISR. I have been using Rollback RX for a while now, until running into the slow booting problem when I went to Vista. I have been using FDISR for about 3 weeks now, and like it a lot.

As for my question. Well, I am glad that I didn't lose anything...but I messed up my system last night and have yet to fix it. I am writing here to get any ideas before I go home and rebuild my system drive. Here is what happened.

I had 2 snapshots on my system drive. A primary one and an emergency snapshot that I could use if the other one failed. I also had 2 archived snapshots...one updating daily from my primary...and one updating weekly from my primary. All was running well, when I read here one day and found out that when I do an image of my drive, it has to copy both primary and emergency snapshots. I read how many of you have a basic, no frills, small space secondary snapshot for use like my emergency snapshot. Thinking this would save image space and time, I decided that I would do the same. I also figured that I would try out the "empty snapshot" feature.

I made an empty snapshot and installed Vista with no problems. Yes, I remembered not to format the drive when installing. After the new Vista operating system was up and running, I installed FDISR. I was very happy to open the program and see my other snapshots as if I had done well. I have access to these snapshots, and since I tested copying one of them to a different hard drive, I know they still exist.

My problem is that I cannot boot into any of them!!! Somehow Vista will not let the FDISR boot screen appear, and it re-boots directly back into the new Vista snapshot each time!!! Does anybody have a clue how I can fix this Or am I SOL. While scouring the forum after this problem, I have read some things about the new upcoming beta which fixes some of the Vista problems. Only problem is...I can't get a hold of a beta version to see if it fixes anything.
I thought the Vista UAC was causing the problem, so I uninstalled the FDISR program, de-activated UAC, and re-installed FDISR...same results. Argh!!!

All help appreciated!!!

Thanks...

(Forgot to write that I am using the newest version of FDISR available)

 

I have tried that. All the snapshots appear there, and if I try to re-boot to one of them it appears to be working. But when it re-boots...I am right back where I started.

My guess is that they just haven't incorporated the changes to the way Vista boots. It doesn't appear to be able to use Vista with the empty snapshot feature. I will continue to check here today...but most likely I will go home and be forced to wipe out this drive and set it all up from scratch again. At least after I have Vista up and running again, I will be able to copy the archive back from another drive...so all is not lost. Just frustrating!!!

 

Slow booting since you went to Vista OH! Contrare Rollback boots 50% faster on a Vista System, at least on mine it boots up in 35-40 seconds from a Cold Start, while on XP Rollback could take up to 2 minutes

 

I actually like Vista. I haven't had many problems with it at all. As far as choice, yes I can use XP. I actually have a removable drive slot on my system. I swap between XP and Vista if I ever need to. At first I ran into some driver problems, etc. with Vista...and I wasn't thrilled about using the dual boot feature...so I was switching back and forth with the drives. Lately I have been using mostly Vista and I haven't had any problems--even with gaming. And the new games with DX10 are amazing!!!

 

All I can say is that I worked with HorizonDatasys when they first encountered this slow Vista boot problem. I beta tested a de-bugged version for them and it worked much better. But, I also noticed that the longer I used the program...the longer the boot up time became. You can read about it in their forum. It may be some weird hardware problem even...but I got a screaming fast computer and that is how it works on my system. You must be one of the lucky ones...

 

Are you running a Intel Core 2 Duo, or an AMD 64x2 Dual Core System? it should have no slowdowns if you are. Other than that all I can think of is disabling some unwanted startup programs or perhaps Re-Baseline Rollback to a later snapshot, that usually works too

 

I am running the AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6000+ on an ASUS Crosshair Mobo. I have tried everything that I can think of to fix the problem with Rollback RX...that is why I removed it and decided to try FirstDefense ISR.

If you go to their forum and read about their upcoming new version...there is a new post in this forum with a link...you will see that I am not the only one with the problem. My guess is it is hardware related, like I stated before. Great that it works for you, but not everybody is skipping around a jumping up and down.

 

I know what you mean, because believe my I have been frustrated with Rollback myself at times, but yesterday I tried something different read my other post here: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=179941

I also found Rollback 8 does NOT! disable Windows System Restore like version 7 did, so I disabled that also and now my snapshots are super small

 

So now we have a problem between FDISR and Vista in the latest build of FDISR that has no solution and might be hardware related? I thought that all the incompatibiliteis between FDISR and vista were worked out if one had both xp and vista on the same computer?

 

I doubt they have been worked out as yet, I would guess that when Microsoft release SP1 and SP2 for Vista then things may get better, but untill then it really is a question that I doubt will be resolved soon

 

I haven't seen anyone on here lately complaining about vista and FDISR. The inclusion of RB8 into the mix further complicates things and I don't use RB8 because of it's proprietary defragger.

 

If I may make a sugestion, I recommend Diskeeper to run along side as a defragger, many will tell you this wont work with Rollback installled, but I can assure you it will. Anyways the decision is yours and ultimately depends on you.

 

When guessing that it may be hardware related, I was speaking of Rollback RX...since I have had problems with it running under Vista.

The problem between FDISR and Vista appears to have been some glitch I had when installing Vista onto and empty snapshot. Somehow after I installed FDISR onto the new snapshot, I saw all my snapshots, but was unable to boot to any of them--or did the FDISR boot screen ever appear. Judging by all the responses I have gotten, it looks like this hasn't happened before. I was just looking for a quick fix when I posted. I had an archived snapshot on a different drive, and I fixed it all up last night.

Thanks for all the responses.