Disk Write Copy Professional

A new shadow prog released in Jan :

http://www.diskwritecopy.com/eng/product_dwc_pro.html

looks interesting, anyone tried it ?

 

Hmmm, they do not distinguish between $ and €.

 

I just installed it in Vista. Installation went fine.
You have to restart whenever you change mode, be it to go to "shadow" mode or out of it.
It has something called "incremental" protect mode. I have yet to get the grasp of that.
There is a 30 day trial, but when you restart into protected mode one trial day disappears and suddenly you have only 29 days...some kind of new trend in trial software?
I have the same problem with Rising Personal Firewall, when I did a program update it took away 10 days of the trial
Well I´ll play with it for a while to see if it offers something worth while. But I know I wont use these kind of freeze software for real until they discover a way to jump in and out of the protected mode without restart.

*edit* works fine with R_FDISR btw I take that back, there was something strange (se below) in my machine and FDISR

 

Interesting - It appears that you can reboot as many times as you want and then decide if you want to keep or get rid of the changes.

INCREMENTAL PROTECTION MODE - When this mode is active, the user can choose himself when to recover the data, i.e. arbitrary number of restarts is possible and data between the restarts will be accumulated and stored using the Disk Write Copy technology. http://www.diskwritecopy.com/eng/misc/dwc_pro_schema_3_big.html

 

I believe so Peter. I haven't installed it yet as I am waiting for a beta but I did find the help files. I was on every page on the site, I just didn't scroll enough.

Anyway, the the help file download is at the bottom of this page.

 

Can it handle softwares, that require a reboot during installing and can you remove these softwares without a trace ?

 

In his incremental mode it looks in a way like Sandboxie,if that is true then SBIE is far superior.

Just one occupied free space block versus many Sandboxes with possible that many different settings !

 

Now i read the documentation better,its possible the Egg of Columbus (saves after reboots),i definatily will gve it a whirl.

 

After reading the documentation, I'm not convinced DWCPro will improve what I already have. The only attraction for me is that it seems to work for more than one partition. I certainly don't like its GUI and it's quite expensive for a software without a reliability history. Their forum isn't much either.
Well I'm not in a hurry, 5-10 years is a long time and DWCPro won't be the last new ISR-software.

 

Exactly, that was my impression too at first sight.

 

Peter, I noticed that all of a sudden after a reboot to normal mode I could not choose "boot to snapshot" in FDISR it was grey´d out. Do you have that problem? I could change snapshot int the pre boot but not in windows.
Also my network card (driver probably) had some problem, I could not connect to internet.
When I restored SP image without DWC all was fine again.

 

DWCpro has one very nice feature that is missing in Shadow Defender and most others for that matter. The Incremental mode has the ability to save across multiple reboots. I rebooted 4 times adding a folder to the desktop each time. When I went back to Off mode all the folders were gone. It's a nice feature but the rest of it is like that old pickup truck that you have to get out of to put it into 4-wheel drive. I could not find a situation that did not require a restart when changing modes including non-system partitions on the same hard disk. It has lots of potential and I do like that Incremental mode.

Beta sign-ups if you like it and want to give input for future features and possibly receive a free license. But it does not specifically say what product is to be tested.

 

And uniquely, for this type of app, it says it supports x64.

 

Thanks for all the testing, than I don't have to do it.
I skip this one, because I don't need that incremental stuff.
If this software was able to do its job without reboots or less reboots, that would have been a sensational improvement, but that's not the case.

 

Too bad ! I initially thought this app. was end of all solutions.
Playing well with FDISR is the starting point,if it fails,good bye to anything.

 

As you said did a copy/update to archive with incremental mode enabled,i would expect that after copy/update again from archive,DWCP should show up in incremental mode,but it did'nt. Weird ?

 

Actually, the interesting features are in the Professional version, but the listed price is a deal breaker from the start. The market will bear a certain price point, but $89.95 for the Pro version is not it.

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