EAZ-fix/Rollback RX and disk imaging

My motherboard has a built-in SATA controller (by Promise), and using HDS Clone was indeed problematic, as was external drive recognition, when I last tried HDS Clone.

Anyone here had success using HDS Clone with the above drive types?

 

That is sad.
No chance that you got a driver CD with that motherboard, with perhaps a DOS driver for the SATA controller?

 

Nope! HDS Clone never work for me either... I had the same kind of problems you describe when trying to make HDS Clone works!!!

 

I don't see anything sad about my SATA controller ...it does its intended job very well (and very fast)!

If anything is sad, it's that HDS Clone didn't support it.

 

Motherboard Asus A8N-SLI.
Two internal SATA hard drives (not raid)
Two NexStar 3 External Enclosures Interface; SATA to eSATA/USB 2.0
At the moment one external enclosure has eSATA connection and the other is USB connection. (Waiting for a replacement for a faulty eSATA cable, hence the USB connection).

Both EAZ-Clone and AYGhost recognise the four drives.

To create and restore requires a FAT32 formated drive or partition.

John

 

Interesting article on ATA & SATA drives HERE. Note especially the advantages of SATA -- not sad but glad, pvsurfer.

 

And, John, you actually tested eazClone/ayGhost on two other systems (of your friends) with SATA too, right? And the hard drives were recognized on these systems too.

Peter, you are right that ideally everything should work right away, but I don't mind doing some research when it doesn't. This is my hobby, you know, and I made a career out of it.

 

That's correct, but tests couldn't be carried out for creating and restoring as the drives were formated NTFS.

Slightly of the subject but still concerning the use of EAZ-Clone and AYGhost;

If you recall I mentioned previously that it took me 26 minutes to restore the backup image. Well, I continued to play with this problem and I can now restore an image in three (3) minutes. How did I manage this you ask? The short answer is I don't know. I have many boot disk on both floppies and Cd's and started using different boot disks, and all of a sudden I'm restoring in double quick time. I'm still not convinced that this is the solution however because looking at the images made since I first started, I've noticed that the first images that resulted in a long Restoration time are *smaller* than the images that restore fast. I'm positive that at no time did I use the compression option, but at my age I do tend to forget things

I also sent an email to support in regarding the boot problem I'm having with the two (2) DVD drives. Received this reply from Peter Zhang at Anyue;

"Hello John,
Thank you for your information. Our guys are now working on the problem, we will get you know ASAP if we have got a result.

Best regards

Peter Zhang"

I'll let you know if and when I hear back from support.

John

 

This night I also sent an email to support of eazSolutions and faster than you can say quick, I received an email from helpdesk with additional questions.

 

The tech support of EAZ solutions just indicated to me that HDS-clone and EAZ-clone have been discontinued... So, can we expect Ayghost to be discontinued too?

 

Ask them.

 

Acc to HDS support, EAZ slutions and HDS are partners and HDA Clone and EA Clone are same and discontinued.
AYGHOST ia same but I have no idea it is supported or not?

 

I have no idea how can I get related information about my laptop. If I could, I will post it.

 

Hi wilbertnl, the link u have posted is dead for me.
I wonder if they are still supporting it?

 

Do you mean the download link to ayGhost? That link works for me.

 

Ya, I was referring to the link posted by you here.

The new link u posted is working.

 

Just a point regarding imaging with TeraByte. I remember there is an option in BING that can save ur MBR. I wish if someone might do some testing with that. Restoring this saved MBR might restore all RolbackRx/ EAZ Fix snapshots.
As far as I remeber that u need a floppy drive for this and my laptops are of course without any flopy drive, othrwise I might have done it nyself.

 

Why use a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito?

If all you want to do is save your MBR, why not use HDHacker ? Despite its somewhat ominous name, this little 20K jewel has done the MBR back-up job for me for many moons. To get it, goto HERE then scroll nearly to the bottom of the page for HDHacker's description & download link.

 

Thanks, I will see if I could try it.

 

BTW, HDS Clone failed on my second laptop. It succesfully made the image and verified it but after ew reboots when i tried again to verify/ restore image it failed to recognize the HD partitions.
I have experienced it in the past as well. It is surprizing that If I try to make another image it recognies my HD partitions as source but fails to recognize any partition as destnation( I have 4 Pri partition wih two in FAT32).
In the past when i empied my FAT partitions by deleting the images they contained and reformatted the partitions, HDS cone was able to recgnize them again.
It is weired. In conlusion I think, it is Ok to play around but for serious imaging it is not reliable at all.

So finally only choie with RollbackRx and EAZ fix is ATI or Paragon. Am I right?

 

MS-DOS does have problems with multiple primary partitions formatted with FAT16/FAT32.
It makes a difference if you could arrange the FAT32 partitions as logical partitions.

 

So how can I do that.
Here is my partition arrangement.
or Making only one Pri partition as FAT32 should work?

 

Well, if you only boot from C:, then you would be able to create a extended partition and then have D:, E: and F: as logical partitions.
You could create an ATI image of these three partitions at once and then delete the partitions and create the mentioned structure.

You don't ever boot from the FAT32 partitions, right?

 

Ya, I only boot from C.
FAT 32 I use only for images.
Is i ossible to do just with OS or I need additional software.
Ok, will come back 2morrow.