Raxco going out of business

Got a letter in snail mail today that Raxco had filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. Upon going to their website discovered that it was indeed true. Enjoyed PerfectDisk years ago, and more recently InstantRecovery.
RIP
Acadia

 

Unless I'm wrong. LOL. Years ago they traded their CD/DVD software business for PerfectDisk. At the time I thought that was very unwise.

 

The late Peter2150 and I swore by their FirstDefense-ISR for years, until we both discovered Macrium Reflect. I was puzzled why I received a notice in the mail that they were in Bankruptcy Court. Then I remembered, I have an extended support contract with them ... they owe me about $7-$8

Their tech support, headed by Greg Hayes, was always exemplary.

Acadia

 

If you don't innovate with changing times... this is what happens.

 

Well thats a bummer.
I'll continue to use Instant Recovery for now as it has always worked flawlessly.

 

When I had my Custom Desktop setup [back in day] with Windows XP installed in 2007, it was brilliant to use, and saved my bacon many times. Another one bites the dust....

 

Same here. Looks like SSDs put all of the defrag companies out of business.

 

So sad to know that. I am still using Instant Recovery and was thinking to mail them about an issue.

 

Ohhh..

"I had a lot of fun with FD-ISR over the years when I used it. It saved my neck a few times.
Things change."

Yis: ISR was such a good tool.
heh: remember the little "frog croak" in the Leapfrog days.
Was a really useful "overlap layer" while Macrium developed.
I wonder where Todd ended up ??

 

It was brilliant on [my] XP desktop all those years ago. Great piece of software!

 

Same here. FD-ISR revolutionized a failsafe personalized Windows System depending on how much storage area a user had to keep images stored. And was equally reliable restoring snapshots in Unlimited number

 

Oh man I used Perfectdisk for many years, but not since going SSD last year.

 

I was another longtime PerfectDisk user until I switched to SSDs a few years ago. It was a great program. Raxco: RIP.

Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

 

Does anyone know of another software similar to Instant Recovery or Instant Rescue?

 

Yes! There is only one product called O&O Defrag that makes the case for a modified defrag for SSDs, but I don't know that it makes a difference in performance. Windows just runs the Trim command.

 

MS obviously dictates who stays and who goes in the software world. This was inevitable like Shadow Defender being summarily knocked out of contention. Many others will follow.

MS won't waste time answering questions. They simply will slip in an Update to break as they will who they will. They can't fight back and will only end up on the heap of what use to be.

 

That may be, but in this case I think PerfectDisk simply became unnecessary.