Drive Cloner RX BETA v5.0 Build 2695615203 (Released 11-26-2010)

[carfal]

Issues Resolved

1. UAC prompt issue at boot time resolved

2. Entering invalid symbols as a filename is now detected

Unresolved issues

1. VSS still not available on W7 x64

2. Creating Recovery median and burning to disk process still fails when running DC Rx in a VM W7 x64 (VMWare Workstation...latest version)

Originally Posted by Werderforever

It would be nice if you can integrate the validation of Backup in the Wizard, so the validation would be taken immediately and automatically after the Backup.

Werderforever

This would be a nice feature to implement.

Originally Posted by carfal

The ability to disable the DC icon in the system tray would be nice as well. I like to minimize the amount of tray icons or background processes as much as possible.

This request is still pending? I noticed that i am able to exit the tray icon now (not sure if this was available in the first beta)

Originally Posted by nexstar

I tried to recover files from the saved image using the 'Recover Files' option but it kept the 'Next' option greyed out even though I'd selected an image file. A little later, it dawned on me that there is a difference between images saved with the 'Backup Files and Folders' option as opposed to those saved with the 'Backup Partitions and Disks' option. This distinction would be fine if there was a different suffix for each. As it is, the only way to tell them apart is to try and do some operation with them. This is confusing to the end user.

I agree with nexstar. I think that a different suffix is in order and a file filter implemented so that only files relating to the area your working in are shown.

eg. 1. when working with drive or partition images, only these image types can be seen
2. When working with backup files and folders, only these image types can be seen.


This is coming along nicely and look forward to continued improvements. Perhaps some work can be done to improve the imaging and backup speeds as well. It currently takes about 15min to backup 40Gb of data (resulting in a 16Gb compressed file). This is to a 1.5TB USB 2.0 external drive so i'm not sure it this is a bottleneck or not. I will try a back up to another partition on my working drive to compare and will post results over next few days.

[Werderforever]

My first thoughts to new Beta:

1.) Task Management now works
2.) VSS works too (Windows 7 32-bit)

I will continuing testing Beta and will post the results here.

Werderforever

[Brownlee]

I get the following error message when verifying:-

...\drive_code\image.c(722)-load_cache_unit.COMPRESS_UNIT_END_MAGIC error, G:\DriveCloner RX\December0.ego

Any help would be apprectiated.

[HDS-Jacob]

Hello Brownlee,

Welcome to the Horizon DataSys forum. Let's see if we can get some suggestions here. For reference, feel free to contact support at http://support.horizondatasys.com and the support tab on our Facebook page: Horizon DataSys | Facebook

Best,
Jacob