Trying out FD ISR

I have been playing around with it a bit more and discovered it is not a panacea. Thought I would try out Paragon Suite 2008 and was trying out various options. Was just looking at the Boot Menu it has and it installed without giving a final chance to back out of it. It worked ok but did not want to use it. Used FD to recover and it failed. Seems, at least in this instance, it does not protect the boot sector. Result was that the other partitions were lost. Took a lot of messing around with partition programs and eventually it was ATI that got back at least the primary. As an aside, I have found that File Scavenger is my absolute saviour. You can trash your partitions but it will still recover all your files.

Have been meaning to install a new HD for some time and this was a good opportunity.

Putting FD Rescue back again I found that this new disk only took 7 minutes to do the original copy (same size), and yes you are right that subsequent ones take much less.

Still feel that this is too limited to be worth the money.

 

Had a somewhat similar experience, using FDISR to get rid of an RBx clone-FD gave a BSOD.

The obvious lesson is that such apps which are embedded in the boot menu and need a reboot to complete the uninstall, cant be rolled back with FD.

 

Tony,

I played some more with FD-ISR and with your help I was able to update/copy my secondary snapshot from my primary snapshot.

It took about 15 minutes as opposed to the original snapshot taking 1 hour and 19 minutes, so as you and Peter stated much less time to refresh a snapshot.

I also "created an empty snapshot" with my original Win xp mce 05 disc. That took awhile but I completed it.

So now I have a primary and a secondary snapshot and the empty snapshot with xp so I'm good to go.

I'm learning a lot here. Heck, maybe I'll try a restore with Acronis soon.

Thanks to all,

John

 

Hey Pete,

Using FD-ISR Pro
Ver. 3.21 build 205

John

 

Very disturbing - seems it is a major weakness with my most trusted recovery program, if I am understanding this correctly. Anyone have any further info/comments?

Rob

 

HDS disapproves any combination of FDISR and RBRx, although FDISR-users usually ignored that warning.
I don't combine any ISR-software with FDISR, because they do a similar job.

 

Wouldnt be too concerned,as its fairly logical that RBx or any other app thats embedded within the boot sequence to appear prior to Windows starting,cant be made to disappear just by choosing another Windows snapshot.

 

Pete,

Do tell.

I have an external Western Digital 250 gb hard drive that is getting full pretty quickly with ATI images.

John

 

Also disabling the PreBoot should apparently be carried out,when installating/uninstalling apps. which modify your MBR ,such as RBx

 

Pete,

Is it possible to use FDISR a bit like HIR-keep archives and after a hard disk failure-just restore the appropriate archive?

 

Pete

Rather amazing for such a seemingly simple app
What is a "stripped secondary"please?

 

Thanks,beginning to understand the love affair of the century-better than Fred and Ginger!

edit-another question please-its understood that Rollback will soon sell the server version under its own name.

Are the server and Pro versions the same.

If this is the case presumably the price difference would be explained, by enabling decent commercial support etc.to be given and a viable profit achieved.

 

Pete,

I made an archive of my secondary snapshot because it should be an exact copy of my primary snapshot. 23gb took 54 minutes to complete. I assume its faster than a normal snapshot because of the compression.

Couple comments and some questions.

I had earlier went to options and selected my external drive as the destination to archive snapshots.

When you watch the archive being created there is no indication as to where it is going to. I thought that there would be and I was not sure until I actually checked my external drive after the archive was finished.

I also was a little confused as to how to create an archive.

I didn't know if you used the export feature or went to copy/update to create the archive. I would have thought that under the tools menu there would have been an option to create an archive.

Questions:

1. Do you always exclude .tmp files when archiving or copying/updating a snapshot?

2. Is anchored data included in an archive?

3. Exactly what do you do with archives and how many archives should you create?

Thanks a ton,

John

 

Anchored objects are not included in snapshots and therefore not included in archives either.
I don't anchor objects, it makes my frozen snapshot vulnerable, although other users, don't seem to be worried about this, when I read posts about other ISR-softwares, like ShadowDefender or any other ISR-software that allows to exclude (= anchor) objects.
A frozen system partition + exclusions/anchoring = Swiss cheese.
All ISR-softwares have that problem : How to keep good changes without exclusions ?

 

Pete,

Thanks for all that info. I will play around with it some more.

Erik,

Thank you for your help too.

Tony, Same as Erik, Thanks,

djg05, My apologies again for horning in.

Thanks to all,

John

 

We shouldn't get precious about threads we start - we are here to learn and share information. So long as it remains close, what is there to worry about - glad you dropped in.

 

Well said. You are absolutely right.

Thanks.
John