FDISR & PD

I had a problem with FDISR and Perfect Disk.
The problem with PD was that it would freeze and eventually produce an error message (which I had mentioned in another post)
From the info I supplied them, Raxco support said, “when PDEngine abnormally terminates, it usually means that it has encountered something on the drive that it is not prepared to handle. Typically, a file system issue,” and advised a CHKDSK run to repair it.
But after the CHKDSK run, my PC would hang at the “Welcome” screen, so I had to do the F1 thing and boot to another snapshot.
Then I was able to check out the repair and PD worked. Problem solved.
But the interesting thing here is the problem with FDISR.
I attempted to solve the PD problem by booting to a snapshot that was 5 weeks older.
Five weeks before the last successful PD defrag.
But it didn’t solve the PD problem.
Nothing is 100%

 

PerfectDisk, as well as all other Defraggers, defrag ALL of the Snapshots, not just the Primary or whatever Snapshot you were in at the time that you Defragged.

Acadia

 

My post was just meant to bring attention to the fact that the 5 week old snapshot didn't solve the problem that surfaced after that snapshot was made.

And yes, PD will defrag all the snapshots on your C drive unless you choose to exclude them.

 

Perhaps Acadia's point was that, if PD was encountering a problem, who's to say that problem didn't extend into the areas of the drive where the 5 week old snapshot lay ? I see no conclusively smoking gun in the hand of FDISR.

Did you try the five week old snapshot AFTER you fixed things with CHKDSK ?

 

Good point.
I'll try it tomorrow. (it's archived)
Will let you know.

 

I've successfully defragged the older snapshot.
I came back to the most current snapshot and defragged that one again. That's 3 of them with PD working OK.
So, I guess the problem would have been with any archived ATI image I had, too, no matter how old.
Not an FD problem.
Thanks for your comments.

 

Cool. Glad to "hear" it!

 

The misunderstanding is that you don't defrag a single snapshot.
What happens is that you defrag the whole partition, that holds all snapshots.

If you encounter file system problems, I suggest

Code:

c:>chkdsk c: /r

It needs a reboot and it might take some time...

 

No misunderstanding here. We've already run through all of that -- he did a CHKDSK with repair option and Acadia pointed out that all snapshots are defragged.