FDISR SSD window 8

I've been using windows 8 with FD for about a month seems to work well............. but yesterday I installed outpost 8 which hosed windows so I tried to flip snapshots GMAL error.

Simple I thought try another snapshot no joy. Not to worry simply restore my last image - Shadow protect failed to restore (never happens) had to install an older image and then import the snapshot (not five minutesany more)

To try things out a bit I copied the SSD to a spare SATA disk and tried to boot windows 8 - it failed saying that it was a different disk. Copied the image to the ssd boots fines?

I'm not sure if turning off hybrid boot (fast startup) would be a good idea for compatibility?


What have others experienced?

 

I just purchased a new system with a SSD but it is with Windows 7, 64-bit. Yeah, I finally am having to let go of FD. I was able to install it, using Pandlouk's excellent instructions, but upon trying to create the second Snapshot experienced several hundred 1392 errors. I figured, time to simply let go. Thanks to Pandlouk I at least got to use FD for a few more years.

But that thing about ShadowProtect not working is scary. I had a similar experience when I initially hosed my system trying to install FD. ShadowProtect could not save me because of a partition problem, I don't remember what it was, I simply gave up and realized, for the first time EVER, that I had to reformat and reinstall windows from scratch. Upon putting in the Windows 7 DVD that came with my new system, I was given a choice of trying to recover my system from a Windows image created by the built-in Windows imaging program. I have always made some images using Windows but have always relied upon ShadowProtect for full recovery. I figured at that point that I had nothing to lose, so I told it to try to find an image and restore it. If I wasn't darned but it did! My system has worked fine ever since and I am back to using ShadowProtect whenever I need an image restore. But on that day Microsoft gained an awful lot of respect from me.

Good luck on your FirstDefense, I am now relying on imaging and System Restore, which has never let me down, yet. But since even FD in years past, and now even SP has even let me down once, I know it is probably just a matter of time which is why I have my system protected by several imaging programs.

Acadia

 

yes I tend to rely on SPD but I do have Acronis jand paragon just in case. Paragon is working best for me at the moment (that was the older image ) .


FD does seem to work ok under windows 8 - THe GMAl error are harder to fix with an SSD because I don't tend to defrag and never do a off line defrag

In truth with SD failing after the FD blip - it was only the FD archive that saved me from a bare metal install so it is still doing its job.

My main concern is hybrid boot?

 

FD works fine with windows 7 and a SSD

 

Hi Peter,

Acadia said he had the problem when trying to create the secondary snapshot during the original install of FD, not when making an archive later on.

But nevertheless, good to know your solution too.

Jim

 

Peter, let me see if I am understanding you correctly. You create the initial bootable Secondary snapshot even though it contains errors. Then you are still able to boot into it even though it may contain corrupt files, and then from within the Secondary you create a new archive using the Primary as the source and a new target archive somewhere else. This works and the new archive is created correctly without errors even though that same Primary shapshot created the bootable Secondary with errors. The difference is that the second time around you were not actually in the Primary for the creation of another archive even though it was still the source. Did I get that correct and this works?

Acadia

 

Whooooa! No, I am not courageous enough to go that far. The fact is this machine is now functioning soooo smoothly that I really hesitate to mess with it to that extent. And lets face it, the fact is eventually we will ALL have to let go of FDISR. Pandlouk gave me a few more years for which I will be eternally grateful. During that time I learned how to mess with imaging programs. I now have my new system protected by FIVE imaging programs, four of them free. System Restore is still my first choice because it has always worked for me in Safe Mode, the only way that I have used it. But I have five imaging programs to fall back upon should SR ever fail me and I have used two of them for really serious recovery. But, ohhhhh, I do miss the ying-yang in my System Tray and the croak of that frog.

Acadia

 

PETER, YOU ARE THE MAN! Something that you said clued me in. I still could not stand the thought of departing with FDISR. You mentioned security programs causing possible problems. I installed FDISR a fourth time and this time I completely killed Online Armor. The creation of the secondary snapshot worked!

I then rebooted with Online Armore enabled. I then created an archive on another drive, booted to my Secondary, and restored my Primary from that archive, all the time with Online Armor enabled. My guess is that only with the creation of a bootable snapshot must OA be turned off, well, at least on my new Win7 64-bit system with a SSD.

Thanks to Todd Lear the creator of this program, Pandlouk who has enabled us to use this beyond its support and, at least for me, to Peter who inadvertently clued me in on how to make it work on my system (and maybe others, this is what Wilders is all about).

Acadia

 

Good thread guys good info

FWIW: I had a similar problem with NIS some time ago.
CAnt recall exactly what i did.
Think i just copy/updated again ?? : no errors.
Definitely NIS from the error log.

Have not had any issue with OA or NIS on "traditional platters" HW with W7.

OOI: Acadia, What did the error log show ?

Echo that

Best wishes for the season.

 

Sorry, Longboard, I kept restoring a mirror image so it all got wiped out. I do remember that they were all 1392 error messages, something about corrupt or unreadable files.

Acadia

 

Are you talking about Leapfrogs or Raxcos FDISR?

 

Raxco's FDISR was developed by Leapfrog and many years ago sold by Raxco. Leapfrog did the version updates for Raxco until Raxco stopped selling FDISR. That was a loooong time ago.

Acadia

 

Really?
The frog croaks?

 

LOL! Oops, perhaps I should clarify. The frog does not croak in the sense that it dies. It croaks with its cute little froggie voice.

Acadia

 

How about that!

It does help to have the speakers turned on.

 

stapp, I can't say for sure because I am not using Win8 but I can't help but to image that you would. Per Pandlouk's instructions I still also add:

*{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
pagefile.sys
hiberfil.sys

to the excluded files and make sure the Exclude System Restore data is checked.

Acadia

 

Good one.

Tempted to toy with trying my old FD-ISR archive installer on Windows 8 here. I would completely flip if it did work.

 

You can install windows 8 and restore archives - I have done so from a bare metal image.