Help, Can't Boot to other snapshots.

I am currently on the 14-day trial. I have 3 snapshots on an 80g hard drive running XP. I am unable to boot to any of the other snapshots at this time. I get the error GMAL-04 and it says press any key to boot to windows. When it does boot, I am stuck in the same snapshot. There is no pre boot option to hit f1 and boot to another snapshot. I don't have a floppy drive but I did save a copy of the mbr to a separate hard drive. I may have messed up playing with the reg cleaner in cc cleaner I thought it would only clean the snapshot I was working in. any help would be appreciated.

 

I have about 10g in each snapshot.
I downloaded the software from Raxco.

I have used an ATI image to recover the c drive to a time before the GMAL-04 error. I am curious what could have caused the error. The only 2 things I can think of are, I had just used the reg cleaner in CC Cleaner, and I had BitDefenders new beta on the snapshot that froze on. I could not boot to the primary or secondary.

 

How do I tell how many files are in the root directory?

 

Doesn't BitDefender use the KAV 5 engine?.And doesn't KAV 5 conflict with FD ISR?.

 

What is the lower limit of "too many files" ?

Is this a problem that arises with first creation of snapshots or one that occures if the file/folder count gets too high along the way?

LBD

 

EEEkkk

I have 15 folders and 17 files in Local Disc (C: ) when will I freeze??

Do ineed to uninstall fiddle with C: and then reinstall.

Please advise.

Lbd.

 

I have 7 folders on the c drive; the majority of data on that drive is in 3 folders.
1) Windows has 604 folders and 10293 files.
2) Program files has 1005 folders and 8021 files.
3) Document has 685 folders and 6485 files.

When I made the additional snapshots I did not anchor any data I simply made a copy of the primary. I had 3 copies of the primary that had been adjusted the way I wanted them.

 

If I understand rite I have no files on the root of the c drive, and 7 folders. Here is a screen shot from the snapshot that has BitDefender running, it has 2 files on it.

 

This is all I have in drive c:.

 

I've got 56 non-system files in my system partition root. It's not a problem for me. Booting to other snapshots works flawlessly.

 

I would say almost certainly since I've been through a number of reinstalls of both Windows and FD-ISR in the past with more or less the same root directory contents.

I'm about 1600 miles from my desktop right now but I may be able to do this using RealVNC from my laptop down here where I'm at. I'll see if I can give this a try and report back. After all, what are Sunday afternoons stranded in a hotel away from your family for?

 

OK, in progress, creating new snapshot from primary right now.

Dang, I found that the last image FD-ISR did at home was 5/14 ! (Normally, this is done once a day) I don't know what the hell happened but I couldn't get the management module fired up !

I had to uninstall and reinstall (program only). All of my snapshots and schedules and options are intact. Pretty weird. Good thing this came up or I may have bumped along not knowing FD-ISR was dead back on the thome desktop !

Anyways, barring something weird but unrelated going on, after I get this new copy made I'll give booting into it a try and report back again.

 

Well, all went OK, there I am:



After my earlier scare with FD-ISR being dead for a whole week, I sure am glad THAT worked out like I thought it would !
ETA: Now, I'm back in my original primary, and everything's still hunky-dory*.

 

I am starting to think on my end it has something to do with BitDefender Beta. After loading an ATI image I had from before FDISR was installed. I recreated each snapshot, I can boot between snapshots with no problem, I made a third snapshot uninstalled NOD, installed the Beta, and when I tried to boot back to another snapshot BSOD. This time I could get back to the primary. I will do some more testing and let you know how it goes. Is anyone else running Bitdefender Beta in one of there snapshots?