FD-ISR is overated!!!!

I have been using the program and liked it very much. Now it will not boot into another snapshot that I copied. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, restored older images and MBR with Acronis to no avail. What ever I do, it will only boot into the original snapshot, not any newly created ones or older archives.

I have the latest Raxco version and updated Windows XP Pro SP2.

I am very disappointed and am going to try other recovery software. Leapfrog came out with updates in July and no word whatsoever from Raxco. I tried their PerfectDisk 8 and it is full of bugs.

I feel ripped off by this company.

 

sorry to here you are having problems - not my experience at all.


Archive your snapshots to another disk and contact Raxco maybe they can help.

 

I have my Program Files and System Files on C:. No Data Files.

I looked at DeepFreeze last night but did not have the time to experiment with it.

I was able to restore a week old image along with the MBR with Acronis that now works. I think the problem occured when I tried to do an offline defrag with Perfect Disk 8.0.30 earlier this week and it would not access the C: drive upon boot. Version 8.0.30 which might be a Beta.

Anyway, it appears to be working again. Thanks for your help.

 

I believe Peter was asking how many files are stored in the root of the C: drive

On my system <10 excluding files that are stored in folders. I beleive that a high number of files in the root has cuased problems for people in the past

 

No, it's NOT a beta.

 

I have 6 system files, boot.ini, msdos.sys, ntdetect.com, ntldr, pagefile.sys and io.sys. I also have autoexec.bat and config.sys which are both empty. All other files are in folders.

That is a total of 8 files.

 

when a snapshot is created are there errors in the log?

Do you use sw like Prevx, Process Guard these could block FD.

Could it be perfect disk version 8 - I only have version 7

 

Hm, I don't want to distact you from helping Silver with solving his computer problems.
But it's fascinating to watch how easily you accept the limts of FD-ISR, compared to the characteristics of other snapshot software.

I hope that Silver can get over his frustration and sort the problems out, because FD_ISR is excellent software.

 

And ALL of you are very educational, thank you all!!

Acadia

 

There were no errors in the log.

I don't use either. I use ZoneAlarm Pro, Nod32, WinPatrol Plus and System Safety Monitor only. I am pretty sure that it was Perfectdisk 8.0.30.

When I restored an older image with PD 7, everything returned to normal.

 

I sorted the problem out. I got rid of Perfectdisk 8.0.30 by restoring an old image. Only real difference between PD 7 and 8 that I noticed was that the Analyze function in 8 is much slower than 7.

No one should accept the limits of FD-ISR. After all, it is recovery software, and you need to have confidence that it works as advertised. Overall, I am very happy with the program and it is very useful to me. However, Raxco should do more testing before releasing an update to PD that crashes when doing an offline defrag while using another one of their programs - FD-ISR.

 

How much testing is "enough" ? Offline defrag with PD8 was tested with FD-ISR installed and performed fine on my system in every build 12 through RTM. I expect I wasn't the only one with FD-ISR installed participating in the beta test.

If you don't call support then you're throwing away what you paid for PD8 -- of course, I realize that could have been as little as $8 for software assurance which would have covered the upgrade from PD7 to PD8.

 

I never expect that a software or a new version of it will work properly on MY computer.
If a software works on most computers that doesn't mean it will work on my computer.

It is predictable that this will happen, because :
- different hardware configurations.
- Windows is a complicated OS
- recent softwares are also complicated
- billions of codes that have to work together WITHOUT any failure ? Only a fool believes that.

That's why I have 7 backup files on an external harddisk to recover my system partition and another 7 backup files to recover my data partition.