Rollback RX 8.0 CHKDSK...

The new fabled 8.1 is out. Now folks anyone that uses RB be prepared to send in a ticket to get a new key. It appears that the old key will no longer work...even if it`s a brand new ver8 key. Wow they sure like to play the patients of a RB user. I`m glad I use somethng else on my desktop. This is pure BS.

If ya don`t like this post Peter. get rid of it.

 

How do you become a gold member? I hope it is just by have the 1 year maintenance.

 

Peter have you tried the new version yet and what are your thoughts?

 

Same here.
And as I wrote over there:

And if they do not answer, I'll have my answer . Sometimes silence is more valuable and makes people understand a lot!

 

test it yourself.
what works in Pete computer doesn't mean it will work on your computer.

mine, it works as i expected. flawless. from 1minute taking snapshot in v8....it takes less than 5secs using v8.1 with 20GB/200GB HDD.

i used Restore snapshot to build up more confidence.....no problem at all (after checking event viewer if there's some conflict or watever problem)

i try to duplicate the developers requirement re: chckdsk issue....NEGATIVE!

on the other side of the coin, i send ticket re: hibernation (known) issue of v8.1 ....POSITIVE with BSOD but i don't care for now since i disable sleep mode of my PC.


Result Summary --> LOVELY in less than 5secs!!!

next test, i'll create bootable disc using RBRx8.1 new feature and check how to restore my partition using that recovery media.

 

Agree....booting to the baseline snapshot and losing the recent snaphots, especially the most current one is just NOT acceptable.

Seen that problem once when there is a sudden power failure in my city. Had chkdsk run and then I was not able to boot to my most current snapshots and cannot boot to my next more current 2 to 3 more snapshots. NOT acceptable !

 

Well with their attitude they managed to make one of their supporters really mad. As I posted over there:

In late August I provided them another customer who bought 2 licences and personally I would have bought another 2 around Christmas.

If they continue like this I will never, ever and I mean ever recommend HorizonDatasys as a software provider to no none.

 

Can only see that the Rollback developers are in a state of denial.

 

sorry guys, i think your just part of minority (less than 20 users) who hates Rollback Rx.

the sad part here is bashing RBRx as if this is the worst system recovery system.

if you hate RBRx, use windows system restore or other software. PERIOD.

It's like the case of Kaspersky AV, some computer it runs terrible and experience Chkdsk issue....but once you know how to fix and play with Kaspersky you will be glad you installed Kaspersky AV in your computer.

just move-on guys....if you don't want RBRx drop-it and forget it (no more bashing). that's the right way to do....remove the burden in your heart and move on.

 

I'm not pete, actually i submitted ticket regarding Hibernation issue with RBRx.

But it didn't hurt me experiencing that problem because I know that all software are NOT perfect.


PS: after creating bootable disc and run it (takes me ~2minutes to view Image drive). all my drive is visible including external hdd....i think this version is pretty good specially its ready for bare metal recovery.

 

FCE I couldn't care less for this chkdsk problem. I do not even consider it a problem. They are only misleading their users. And this is why:

 

I thought someone ought to say simply that I use it and am happy with it. You folks can continue your technical arguments until the cows learn how to program the vcr, but for me the program in the past, and now 8.1, does for me what it says it will and does it quite well. I have made the bare metal bootable restore disk and find it a fine add on.

Sorry to post with nothing bad to say. But someone, somewhere has to be happy.

 

absolutely!

 

I exchanged some emails with Andrew (the developer of Rollback RX) and I thank him for this, and I wanted to share with all the users that HorizonDatasys do care and try to identify the problem.
One solution that passed my mind could be the following:
After a bsod or a powerloss Rollback checks its table; but instead of loading the working snapshot, should take another snapshot based on the working one, and then should ask the user, if he wants to load the baseline, for recovering his valuable data (advisable), through loading that snapshot as a virtual drive, or if he want to proceed normally.
By doing this I think that Rollback will minimize the possibility that chkdsk corrupts a good snapshot even if the driver that directs the writes is not loaded. The snapshot that will be corrupted will be the last one automatically created by rollback after the check of its table. And not the one where the user worked before the power loss happened.

ps. I will continue to recommend Rollback Rx to my friends, especially after this chkdsk problem is resolved.

 

Why this sudden change Care to elaborate more

 

Well from the "talk" that I had with their chief engineer and developer of the RollBack RX I was informed that they did not suspected at all that the cause of the chkdsk problem could be a power loss during the defrag procedure at the boot time and for this reason they have not really tried it.
He ensured me that he will look deeply into that and see what are the worst scenarios and how they can improve it…

As for the security problem that I described at my previous posts, he asked me as much details I could provide him and he will check this out.

For the Reward of 1000$, he told me that he knew what I meant with my reaction about it, and that it is not really about the money.
They only try to show that:
1). they do care about problems reported by customers.
2). they are not trying to hide problems.


ps. This is the kind of support that I expect from a software provider. Since they provide us such support I'll continue to recommend HorizonDatasys to my friends.
(although I am fan of freeware apps)
Panagiotis

 

that's good to know

got this email from RBRx developer....

"we have enhanced the issue in this new build, but there're still a lot to do. Thanks"

with the bare metal recovery and less than 5secs take a snapshot, this new RBRx v8.1........ it works like a FERRARI!!!

 

Well, I just installed it. For sure is much faster.
But I cannot say yet, if it is more stable. I will give it some serious testing at the weekend.
I only checked about the vulnerability I was talking about earlier and is there, but I expected that.

An advice: If you want to minimize to zero the possibility of a chkdsk install Returnil. When Returnil is active the chkdsk does not happen even with a power loss. Unless it happens during the preboot enviroment of RB-rx.