FD-ISR just saved this new user

OMG - just installed some Microsoft updates on my Primary Snapshot & now when I reboot, my PC is trashed -- can't access anything due to message saying can't find path & I might not have permissions, etc. And nothing shows in Task Manager, either.

So booted into my Secondary snapshot and all is well again. Since I anchored My Documents, I didn't lose a very important registration doc I needed & had saved in My Documents. Just lost some unimportant emails is all.

I am so impressed. But can I fix my Primary Snapshot is the question. But do I care because within seconds my PC was up & running due to this ingenious software. I'm off to create a copy of this working snapshot just in case I trash this one next.

 

gr8 huH!!!!!!!

 

Like Pete said, at the moment it's your only option,so make you yourself more secure by making archives on another drive,and backup your documents and all anchored data !

 

hjbyram,
Congrats, now you learned in practice how good FDISR really is.
We have quite a few horror stories in this forum, where FDISR was the hero.
I agree of course with the advices given in this thread.
As I said before : FDISR is a troubleshooter in deeds. That is something else than a help in words, you don't understand.

 

I learned quite some things at my recovery from disaster,but in the darkest night FDISR was like a Lighthouse were all ends meet!

 

Since I have my frozen snapshot, I fix 99% of my problems, often caused by installing new software, with a simple reboot.
Of course you can also fix these problem with a rollback snapshot/archive, but a frozen snapshot is automatic and I like to have it easy.
I expect that Returnil will do the same, once I use it in September.

I don't like to spend my time on fixing problems, that is only good for users, who are really interested in solving all kinds of problems.

 

I will need to read up on the frozen snapshot - I am still mastering the basics.

However, now that this happened, I have realized some things. I am running ShadowProtect as well, so do have full images if it gets to that. But I don't have any partitions yet. However, I have 2 internal drives.

Can I do this: Move the My Documents & my Mail folders to the 2nd internal drive. Is this difficult to do? (I think I recall seeing instructions out on Microsoft for changing the location of My Documents.)

 

Yes it is eaasy - I have a O/S disk , and serveral data disks. Anchoring data is not required then - all my snapshots point to my real data on a diffferent disk.


I prefer this because

• I have a simple image of my basic OS - basically static and a number of FD snapshots and some FD archives on a separate disk.
  
  Imaging a drive with a number of snapshots and loads of data - results in loads of large images
  
• Data is imaged as required

 

hjbyram,
I didn't even move "My Documents" to my data partition. I created my own folders.
My system partition looks like a normal partition, only the folder "My Documents" is EMPTY.

Each decent software has folder SETTINGS, that allow you to store your output-documents anywhere.
So these softwares are EASY for separating your data from system.

The only more difficult part is your browser and email-program. I only know how to do this for Firefox and Thunderbird.

A few months ago, I decided not to do this anymore for Firefox. I store my bookmarks via "del.icio.us".
The reason was that Firefox is a browser and browsers are source of infections. My frozen snapshot removes these infections during reboot.

Thunderbird is also a source of infections, but I don't open any spam-email, I just remove them. So Thunderbird is always empty, except non-spam emails.
All my non-spam current emails are stored on my data partition, so I can't lose them, including my email-address-book.
If I want to keep a serious email, I store it in a Word Document along with other information.

 

As a photographer,i have no media on my disk,everything offline but to organize my pictures the databases of my archive/indexing applications only exeed already 9 gig. So i put these stuff among others on a second partition and use a simple backup app. [KR] to backup these data to an ext. drive.So i image only C: with nothing of personal on it.With FDISR i only anchor my desktop which i frequently backup[KR also] to the same external drive.I am thinking about to put all my pers. data on a second int. drive or an ext. drive and repartitioning it back to one big C:,but even then you have to backup these ext.or int. drives to stay secure.So the thinking goes on.