FDISR still rules

Dont mean to gush here but...

Just been giving the platters some major spin time on the home boxen.
Reinstalling some stuff, updating other stuff, trying some new heavy installs: Photoshop, Gimp, Corel, fresh VMWare, NIS

LOL, finally updated to SP3 !!
Lots of catch up with XP updates etc etc
Major renovations.

New snaps over old, old snaps over busted installs, boot from snap to snap and back. ( must be a song there somewhere )
Couple of blue screens.
( always had images as/if needed ..heh: as/if needed indeed !! )

I know; 1's & 0's, but, If there was software as a religion; I would worship at the altar of FDISR. Never turned a hair: did more than could be expected.

LOL, the only problem is a dangerous sense of complacency

Todd: come home now; you've made your point: all is forgiven.

Pandlouk et al: please tell me its working well on W7 ??

 

Do all versions of Win7 have that hidden 100mb partition? If not, would FD-ISR work just fine on a version of Win7 that does not have that partition without having to do any of that fancy stuff?

Hells bells, I don't even need 64bit, would keeping Win7 at 32bit make things even smoother?

Can you tell that I really want to keep FD-ISR Classic?

Acadia

 

@Pete: can you elaborate on that intriguing little statement,


PS: apart from the threads here: has anyone written a template for install of FDISR on Win7 ??

PS: Acadia: http://www.google.com/search?&q=install win7 withoutr 100mb partition
A starter.

 

So smooth.
OK...LOL... ..anything SP can do BING will surely do too
I hope
I'll get to it shortly: no rush ... wait for SP1 maybe: follow in the footsteps of giants.

@Acadia
Apologies Re my reply to your query above : completely missed the point..Sorry 'bout dat.

 

Hi Peter2150

Ok. My Shadow Protect license being valid only up to v3.52, I am downloading the ISO for the full evaluation trial version 4.x. After burning the boot cd, should I be able to use those "4 main restore options" ? Will them be available, I mean to patch the BCD and to easily get rid of this 100mb second partition by following your presented scenario?

 

Ok, I will give this a try to see the options available there and report back here.

Later, and thanks.

 

Hi LongBoard,

FDISR, as Peter said, works fine on 7 both 32bit and 64bit. The only downside is that the archives are huge compared to those of xp and the update/restore times take a little less time than restoring an full image; and because of this I use it less frequently now.

On the other hand I consider FDISR to be the only fully functional 64bit sandbox and I use a dedicated snapshot for testing new software before installing it on my main system.

As for the 100mb partition of 7. There are lots of ways to get rid of it; but most of them need to edit the BCD bootloader afterward and sometimes the automatic editing tools can give problems (e.g. windows 7 recovery environment when invoked by pressing F8 does not work).
The method I described New PC with Windows 7 Preinstalled is the only one that does not need editing the BCD bootloader.

Panagiotis

 

P & P: thx.
I have read and reread the FDISR+Win7 thread: bookmarked, heh, even printed it out.
I have read the Terabyte walk through and have copies of Bootsec files.
Locked and loaded.

Ya
Nuttin better yet.
Regards.

 

Edit: oops, broken post! i pushed on the wrong button! sorry

 

(Sorry to be late, I was offline for some days.)

The available boot cd ISO for v4 full evaluation trial offers all the needed BCD tools, in the "Boot Configuration" advanced options, i.e. install, fix, etc.