Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

Yes, your Windows Recovery Environment is broken as explained earlier by Pandlouk and Brian.

Best regards,

 

OK thanks for the guidance. I will have to go over the material and see if I want to persue it. Should I be able to use my AX64 recovery media? I haven't tried it yet because I've never done it and am afraid to screw up.

 

It shouldn't affect your AX64 Recovery Media. You are well covered and don't worry.

I would for my sake of mind, try to boot into the AX64 Recovery Media to see if it works, so that I can use it if and when disaster strikes.

Best regards,

 

Check the Recovery partition, it could be that dell puts there the winre.wim.
But even if it is there it won't work since the entry in the bcd is missing.
Have you ever used EasyBCD or another program to fix/repair your windows bootloader?
A firewall or security app should not mess with BCD so it's unlikely that a firewall caused the problem.
I do not remember if RBRX modifies the BCD or not...

Panagiotis

 

Hi Mohamed,

I do not remember if RBRX modifies also the BCD.
The renaming of winre.wim to winre.dat was introduced with version 9.1 (what they called "Windows 7 compatibility"...). I thought that it was a known limitation since wilders forum has so many RBRX fans.

On my system it did revert the extension change during the uninstall. Has not pass my mind that would leave it unchanged and cause your boot menu problems; so I had not mentioned it at the time.

Panagiotis

 

Hi Panagiotis,

Not to worry, I learned a lot from it. It was the time when you were absent for a while due to your father being sick. At the same time, IFW was the first imaging program which introduced WinRE to replace WinPE. Everyone could get their IFW to work with the WinRE, but I couldn't. I didn't even suspect the culprit being Rollback Rx.

It is good that it happened, as I learned a lot from it.

Best regards,

Mohamed

 

bgoodman,

Thank you very much for letting me know, great news!

Isso

EDIT: thank you for editing the program name.

 

Panagiotis,

Thanks a lot! I'll include one of this links - very useful. I'll also elaborate on mounting, indeed I completely missed that feature

Isso

 

atomomega,

Defragmentation increases the size of the following backup significantly - it's normal. The reason is that it involves lot of read/write operations.
EDIT: In fact this bug with defragmentation on XP also could affect the backup size. Let us check it when the next update is released. Thank you

Isso

 

You're welcome.

Panagiotis

 

From your mouth to Gods ears. I hope that AX64 can save me from the wrath of RBRx. Thanks.

I forgot to mention that while I was looking for my recovery folder in C drive I found a folder named Rollback 10 that remains after I uninstalled. It has the Shield, setup, ini, and other files in it. No doubt there for when you reinstall. FWIW

 

Hi Pandlouk, No I only have used the apps in my signature or similar ones. Thanks again for all your help along with Brian.

 

Hi Isso, You say that if you back up manually, you can delete back ups you don't need. As I back up manually, I attempted to delete a back up that I don't need by pressing DELETE, and it started a merge. It got to 95% done and stopped with an error and nothing wound up being changed. Did I do something wrong, or don't I understand your post above?

 

Hi twl845,

It's a bug in the current version that sometimes results in merge errors. Next update will fix it. Sorry about it.

Isso

 

BTW, any estimate on the date of next stable release you could share with us ?

Thanks.

 

My experience is that I have been able to create recovery media and boot into recovery mode using it, with both Paragon Backup and Drive Cloner on my PC that has Rx installed. I have not tried AX64 on this PC because the drive is too small to partition to permit backups to it when I am not able to connect to an external drive (its an older laptop with a 120 gig drive that is 80% full). What I am going to do is pick up a larger drive and partition it, then move my C drive (OS & Data) to the new, C partition. I will use AX64 to backup the C drive to the 2nd partition which will take care of the day to day (replacing Rx once I can get more than 3 hourly snaps with AX64) and a 2nd backup program to image both partitions weekl to an external drive.

Bottom line is that it is not def that Rx will prevent the creation of recovery media and access to the recovery mode in all cases so the only way to know for sure with a particular backup program/system is to try it. If it is a problem on your machine a simple solution would be to create the media using a friends machine.

Not all that big a deal IMO.

 

Not nec, shield is one of the things not removed upon Rx uninstall and often (but not always) it needs to be manually removed before Rx can be reinstalled.

 

HI Froggie, I received your Pm giving me permission to use your phrasing in my description of AX 64, thank you. I do not see the comment you mentioned that you had made on the forum though (unless its on the HDS Rx forum).

Thanks again.

 

twl845,

Do the AX64 boot media work? Can you boot into the recovery environment?

 

MerleOne,

We are planning to release next update with GPT/EFI support, so it mainly depends on when we'll be able to finish that feature. At this moment most of the work is done, and if tests are ok, I'm planning to release it within 2 weeks.

Isso

 

That's a typical Dell Win7 setup. Note that the Recovery partition is the Active partition, not the Win7 partition. Dell put the booting files in the Recovery partition.

You could temporarily give the Recovery partition a drive letter and see if winre.wim is in a Recovery folder. It is pretty likely.

In a Win8 installation that has a SRP, winre.wim is in the SRP. That's why the SRP is 350 MB.

 

Hi Isso,

I have a problem, and when restoring using boot media i noticed that i only have backups prior to 2 weeks.
And i was wondering, if its possible to backup in that enviroment(outside windows), since i could capture datas even the windows is corrupted. I mean, after restored, i could browse that backup to restore some files.

 

Just a quick question. I'm getting a new computer with UEFI/GPT. I know from the AX64 website that AX64 does not work with UEFI/GPT. Is it possible to program the software so it will work with UEFI/GPT?
Thanks,
nozzle

 

Hi bisteka,

Sorry about that problem. Could you please file a ticket (click "Feedback and Support" button on the top left corner of our main page www.ax64.com ).
In the ticket please include the logs - here is how to collect them, and a screeshot of your backup folder (AXTM).

For backup from Recovery environment - it's not supported at this moment, sorry. Later we may add it.

Isso

 

nozzle,

We are going to release a version with GPT/UEFI support in about 2 weeks. You might watch this thread or follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get the news.

Isso