Is This Right??

I work with 3 snapshots. Primary, Copy of Primary and Working Snapshot. I wanted to try out a new Firewall, so booted to the Working snapshot, uninstalled the existing firewall as instructed, and installed the new firewall.
After working with it for a few days, I decided to go back to my original firewall, so booted to the primary, thinking I would just copy it back to the working snapshot.
What I found in the primary was that the original firewall was uninstalled, and there was no firewall present any longer.
Surely, an uninstall in the working snapshot should not have affected the Primary.....or did I do something wrong?

 

Uninstalling the firewall in the Working Snapshot would not have uninstalled it in the Primary unless you used the Working Snapshot to copy/update to the Primary. Good luck.

Acadia

 

Always careful not to update the primary unless I am sure I want to. If I had, it would have the new firewall installed, because the uninstall of the old firewall and install of the new one was done at the same time.

 

If uninstalling a program in one Snapshot also automatically uninstalled it in another Snapshot, then FirstDefense is definitely not working correctly and this is very disturbing. I would notify tech support immediately ... and PLEASE let us know what they say!

Acadia

 

Just a thought before I contact Tech support. I always install my programs on a separate partition. So....if I uninstall it would bypass FDR and uninstall the app from the unmonitored partition........wouldnt it Really not sure about that though. It is a bit of a worry I must admit.

 

If your FDISR is installed on partition [C:], FDISR will only work for this partition [C:]. Any other partition will be ignored by FDISR.
Why would you install your programs in another partition, than [C:] ?
I can't follow you anymore, maybe Acadia can.

 

Your setup will limit FD
All your snapsots will be effected if you do this. I would be worth installing encarta (v large) this way but not other apps.


rollback rx might suite you better

 

So, the firewall was uninstalled in the work snapshot and the files were removed.
When you switched to the primary snapshot, the original firewall was not uninstalled, but the files were not found.

By the way, your concept of applications in a second partition is supported by eazFix/Rollback RX. It monitors multiple partitions.

 

Erik. I keep my C. Drive clean of everything except the operating system. Always have done this. Makes fixing any operating system problems much easier.
C Drive. Windows XP Pro only.
D Drive Applications Only.
E Drive. Data (Backed up to External)

Hope this makes sense to you now.

Not sure that Rollback rx is as good as FDR.

FDR has saved me a lot but havnt come across this before.

So.....does everyone here keep their applications on C. and doesnt that make C Drive extremely large and unweildy??

 

My setup is like this :
Internal Harddisk1 - System Partition [C:] = winXPproSP2 + FDISR + Applications
Internal Harddisk2 - Data Partition [D:] = only personal data, emails and email-address-books
External Harddisk - Backup Partition [E:] = only backup images and archived snapshots.

As wilbertnl already said, I think you are better of with RollbackRx.

So your FDISR is installed on [D:] away from Windows ?
This also means that your snapshots contain only applications. Am I right ?

 

No, My snapshots are of the C Drive. ie The OPERATING System. I only want FDR to protect the Operating system so I dont need Rollback. Apart from this one instance, it has up to now worked flawlesly. To stop any more confusion, I will try to replicate the previous result when I have more time.
Thanks to all for your input.

 

Well, it's indeed confusing, since you have so many partitions.
All your applications are installed on [D:], except your original firewall and your test firewall which are/were both installed on your [C:].

Primary snapshot = original firewall
Working snapshot = test firewall

You decided to get rid of the test firewall.
After copy/paste from primary snapshot to working snapshot you should have :
Primary snapshot = original firewall
Working snapshot = original firewall
Unless you made somewhere a mistake.

A possible mistake could be :
You uninstalled the original firewall in the working snapshot (good) and in the primary snapshot (bad) by mistake.
You installed the test firewall in the working snapshot (good)
You copy/updated from primary snapshot (without firewall) to working snapshot (good)
Primary snapshot = no firewall
Working snapshot = no firewall

OK. I will wait for your second attempt.

 

I dont have this problem,I also have 3 snapshots like the ones mentioned, If I uninstall something while booted to either snapshot other than the primary, the bootback to the primary is as it was before, untouched with no software alterations. So you must have updated the primary or something

 

The issue here is that Kennyboy removed an application that was installed in all his snapshots.

This reaffirms to me that it's better to never uninstall, I prefer to startover with a OEM snapshot.
Kennyboy needs to keep an archive of Windows OEM at hand and any evaluation should be conducted in a snapshot that is a derivate of that OEM archive.

No uninstall, we say.

The result of this concept is that you will have files of applications in D:\Program Files\ that are not properly installed in all your snapshots.
Which may lead to confusion.

 

Who said that software was the cause of Kennyboy's problem?

Kennyboy has a different philosophy of Operating System, Applications and Data than most of us. Nothing wrong with that, but he needs to be aware of the consequences of this structure.

Why do you say that Rollback RX would not be better? I assure you that multiple partitions on the first drive are supported and monitored. I have tested that.

If C: and D: both are monitored and you switch to a different snapshot in C: you will find the status of D: changed to how it was at the time you took the snapshot in C:. Yes, read this sentence again!

 

VERY interesting stuff, fellows, keep it coming! So, am I to understand that for a "normal" user of FD, a normal user only having a single cartition, that FD will still behave the way that it is supposed to? I have never had any problems will either installing or uninstalling new programs; whatever I do in one of my Snapshots DOES NOT affect any of my other 15 Snapshots, and it never did!

Acadia

 

Acadia, you have nothing to worry about in your setup.

 

Thank you, wilbertnl. That's what I kind of figured, but many of you have become much more expert in this program over the past year than I could ever become because of all the testing that a few of you have done, testing that I would NEVER even consider doing! Testing with partition programs, Imaging programs, other "instant recovery programs", etc. Thanks for your confirmation.

Acadia

 

But one of them is my Freeze Storage, so maybe I only really have 14?!

Acadia

 

Yeah, Peter,
Acadia doesn't do what you and I do. But he accomplishes something that we won't.

 

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Acadia

 

Sorry to have caused all this confusion, but I have discovered something interesting. As I said in my opening post, I have 3 snapshots. I was only considering 2 of them when I posted, but I have now booted into my Primary backup snapshot, and.......the firewall has gone there too!! ie. NO firewalls installed at all.
From what you are all saying it seems that the cause may be because I am using my D partition to install my Applications to.
I am actually amazed that more people do not do this as it does keep the C Partition very clean. Also, if it is wrong to do so, why would there be an option to change the default installation directory on ALL programs. Anyway, the operating system seems to get everything it needs to run the Application wherever you install it.
I think Erik might be slightly misunderstanding the setup. Although all my applications including FDR are installed in the D partition, FDR most definately ONLY monitors the C partition. That is what it was designed for and that is what I use it for.
I will have to have a re-think however on FDR because using it as I do seems to run against the whole idea of the snapshots being totally untouchable.
Interesting concept though!