someone should explain this please

one year ago i was playing with rollback rx ,and i didn't know at that time the precise nature of this program , in the next day my brother restore a ghost image for the system drive and the result was complete failure of booting
the pc ramained many days failing with no apparent solution untill i know that the problem was error in the MBR due to alteration on the MBR by the rollback rx while the ghost restore the whole "C" drive except for the MBR that was remained changed by the rollback rx


the same scenario happened yesterday but with changing the rollback rx with FD-ISR rescue
this time someone restore the "C" drive ghost image while FD-ISR is installed

but the surprise is nothing wrong happened , in fact i was shocked
assuming that both rollback and FD-ISR work under a general principal of playing around the master boot record
the supposed scenario should be another complete pc failure with a huge catastrophe like the one hapened one year ago

can someone tell my exactly what happened?
why my pc didn't affected , why it still working very good after restoring the ghost image of the "C" drive

 

Hi hany3,

can you explain better? does the pc boot or not after restoring with FD-ISR installed?

FR-ISR does not alter the mbr.

Panagiotis

 

it worked well and nothing wrong happened and that was the surprise for me

in the help file there is something written about i must disable the preboot menu if i'm going to restore an image for the system drive and i didn't do that

just someone restore the system drive image without disabling the preboot menu or uninstalling fd-isr

sorry what u mean by not altering mbr so how can it has a pre-boot menu

 

Ok... as expected.

It modifies the boot sector of the system partition not the master boot record.

Panagiotis

 

thank you so much for explanation despite i don't know the major differences between altering the MBR and altering the boot secor of the system drive

but i concluded that this point make FD-ISR non-risky on contrary to the eazfix and rollback rx which sometimes cause major problem for pcs after playing with the MBR so that any bootable media can easily destroy the harddisk of a pc with rollback installed on it

but r u sure about the so called altering the boot sector only ??
i know since long ago that FD-ISR and consequently all softwares that are based on it like FD-ISR RESCUE work mainly in the mbr since its 1st versions


thanks again
best regards

 

and the result will be greater compatilbilty between FD-ISR and any imaging backup software on earth , interesting

 

You are welcome.

Check here https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=163171

Panagiotis

 

thanks peter and pandlouk for ur clear explanation
i thinl reply after reply things become more and more clear and obvious
and now i have 2 Q :

1- is there any possiblity even 1% that any virus infection in one active snapshot can spread infection "by medical expressions which are my real life" to other non-active snapshot which is also present on the "C" partition but has no access rights

2-is there's any possiblity to disable logging of FD-ISR
i tried to disable the main ablication "not the service" from startup to decrease memory usage and every thing goes well but i don't know if this will disable the logging or not . if there's another way please show it

 

1) thats why clean external archives are so desirable,i guess that in some way other snapshot on C: can be compromised.
Its not an antivirus solution.
Beyond that have always a reliable imaging solution w.o.w can you restore ? and is the image reliable as well.

 

Huupi
from ur reply i concluded that u believe that there still a possiblity for spreading of any virus infection to other non-active snapshots

i'm sure u r right but firstdefense-ISR from the name "1st" "defense" "instant recovery"

1-fd-isr should protct "defense" ur system if got compromised by any nvirus infection by bootimg to other clean snapshot

so what is the value if all ur snapshots are infected in same way

2-fd-isr should recover ur system "instant system recovery "ISR " , if one snapshot got virus infection and windows become unbootable , if other snapshots become infected also , so the result will be completely unbootable pc
and at this point any external archive of a snapshot will be useless as FD-ISR can not use for booting

absolutely right

 

If virus make pc unbootable and all snapshots are infected then thats end of the story.Your concern about one snapshot infecting the other resident snapshot,IMO its possible but i have no hard evidence to support my feeling.
Nevertheless with some explorers (xyplorer but albeit limited)) you can search the other resident snapshots,so if this utility can open, how about malware......?