New Drive Snapshot build released.

Does anybody know where does the new version of ds puts it's entry to load on next windows restart for restore. I searched the registry and found no entries there. thanks

 

It adds a snapnative.exe string in the BootExecute entry.
Hkey_local_machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\
BootExecute:REG_MULTI_SZ: autocheck autochk *|snapnative.exe

Panagiotis

 

Mini 98 is very fast too. I have a 98 of just 9MB size. I cannot see any downsides to restoring with 98.

 

mark,
I have three questions would like to ask you about about mini 98

1. Can it supports backup and restore in AHCI mode(BIOS)?
2. Can it supports for more than 2GB RAM?
3. Can it supports for large mass storage(HDD, more than 1TB)?

 

what do you mean?
do you use the floppy created with xp?
and it works only with command line , not gui

 

I tried to make one of those using this winbuilder project, but result failed to boot on my laptop so I put it on hold.

How did you make yours? (i'd love to have a 9 MB mini-Windows because it must boot almost instantaneously on modern PCs).

 

In my memory, Win98 does not supports for more than 2GB RAM and AHCI. Maybe also does not support multi-core CPU and others new hardwares.

If you want to make a mini98, I think you've better make a "miniXPE" with AHCI supports.

 

There are a number of ways to get it working with higher memory which involves editing system.ini and/or using a RAMDISK.

I am trying on older pc. Try these settings for now.

2GB-4GB setting - maximum 3GB usage, rest is swap file usage.
system.ini:
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
MaxPhysPage=40000
MaxFileCache=393216

config.sys:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.EXE /NUMHANDLES=64 /VERBOSE

http://rloew.limewebs.com/Programs/Patchm01.htm

98lite http://www.litepc.com/98lite.html

Unofficial 98 service pack
http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html

Smallest 98 i seen is 7mb which is a embedded version.

 

hi
i made a backup(image) of my windows xp
after with acronis disk director boot disk i cancelled,wiped 1 pass my xp partition , re-create the partition and it's active

after i restore the image with drive snapshot ,but xp doesn't boot

what's wrong?

 

your BCD might be corrupted.

om Windows 7 here DS breaks the BCD.
i have to repair with Win 7 Repair disk.

if it is the BCD you might want to try Easy BCD.
there might be ways to fix it from within DS, i am not sure...

 

Mark,

Although win98 supports more than 2G RAM, but it seems does not supports AHCI, larger HDD and other modern hardwares. Therefore, making mini98 for modern pc is not a good choice.

 

but my xp doesn't have a bcd
my w7 has one , so drive snapshot is not able to restore the bcd ?
i guess paragon or macrium can restore it too

thanks

 

mantra,

I don't know what or why you did what you did with Acronis Disk Director, but it sounds like you wiped your WinXP boot-loader. You can restore your MBR with Drive Snapshot by doing the following:

Select Restore Disk from File
Select Image to Restore > Next
Make sure your C-Drive is highlighted in upper pane
In lower pane, right-click on 'HD' box that corresponds to your C-Drive
Select Restore Master Boot Record > Next

Good luck,
Aaron

 

I have been using snapshot for years but never knew that

Thanks!

 

Yw. - When backing up the system partition, DS always saves the vital Track0 data, but it's not very often that one needs to restore the MBR or Partition Structure. Should that become necessary it's there in the right-click context menu.

Aaron

 

another drive snapshot trick is the "checkboot" command line. for example,

Code:

snapshot --checkboot x:

or

Code:

snapshot --checkboot HDx

where x is the partition letter or hard disk number of the target drive. this command checks if the target is bootable, and if not, may offer to fix it. i've used it successfully after transferring one of my mini-xp's from a bigger volume to a smaller volume (mounted VHDs in this case).

 

For sure, that would be a nice (advanced) option to have in DS' Windows GUI.

 

can drive snapshot restore an image in a resized partition?

for example i made a image of a partition about 60Gb with 15gb of data

can i restore this backup to another partition of 30GB or 100GB ?


thanks

 

30GB - NO, so you need to resize to 60GB or larger
100GB - YES

 

thanks
why not in a partition about 30GB ?
the data (15gb) can fit in 30GB , for 15GB i mean the data before make an image

 

mantra,

DS can not restore an image to a destination partition that's smaller than the source partition.

Aaron

 

thanks Aaron
pity , maybe mount the volume and

Code:

xcopy z:\* c:\ /E /H /R /K /O /X /Y

should do the trick

paragon , acronis could do it
it's a shame that a great software like drive snapshot can't

 

Imho that's expecting too much from DS' tiny 280KB program - besides which, when you find it necessary to resize a partition it's probably best to leave that job to a specialized partition manager (Acronis, Easeus, Paragon, etc.)!

Aaron

 

Just a comment on restoring an image to a partition smaller than the original partition. The size of the target partition depends on the data spread in the original partition.

With a sector based restore, if your original partition was....( * is sectors in use, - is free space)

[---**----**--]

then the target partition to restore into can not be smaller than...

[---**----**]

An example. Say your OS partition was 200 GB and it contained 20 GB of data. You may have system files in the middle of the partition. Perfect Disk does this. It puts the MFT in the middle of the partition. So even though you only have 20 GB of data, you could need a 100 GB target partition (or larger) to restore the image.

Edit... I'm currently looking at a fresh WinXP partition.

Partition size = 36891 MB
Data = 1577 MB
The minimum partition size to restore into is 18724 MB