Windows 7 - Does Drive Vaccine support MS Windows 7?

[Derek]

Are there plans to make DV available for Windows 7 [x86 and 64]?

Currently, on W7RC x64, i get an error at the end of DV install:
"Update MBR Failed"

[HDS-Stormy]

Originally Posted by Derek

Are there plans to make DV available for Windows 7 [x86 and 64]?

Currently, on W7RC x64, i get an error at the end of DV install:
"Update MBR Failed"

Derek,

Let me see if I can get an answer for you! You can also contact our support team @ http://support.horizondatasys.com

Maxxy

[Nick10]

Originally Posted by Derek

Are there plans to make DV available for Windows 7 [x86 and 64]?

Currently, on W7RC x64, i get an error at the end of DV install:
"Update MBR Failed"

Firstly, Yes - Drive Vaccine will support Windows 7 64 bit. In fact, the current build should not have any issues with Windows 7; however, we will be introducing a new version once Windows 7 is commercially released.

The reason for your MBR Failed is completely unrelated Drive Vaccines' supporting Windows 7....

Drive Vaccine protects the entire root drive (0). The Master Boot Record is the very first sector of your root drive, and is the very last sector that is written too during the Drive Vaccine installation.

All disk imaging, encryption, Multi-boot OS and products such as Goback, Ghost, etc. - NEED to take ownership of this very first sector, as the MBR controls the primary partition table and Bootstaps the OS after the BIOS has passed initilization... In simple terms - once the Machine's BIOS passes its basic hardware check - it needs to load a program (OS). It is here where the MBR is looked upon to find out what needs to load first and in what order.

It seems that you may have a drive imaging product or some other security (AV) that may be protecting your MBR - and therefore, Drive Vaccine is unable to update the MBR during the installation. You should uninstall or disable any security or disk encryption/imaging software from your PC and then try to re-install Drive Vaccine.

You may want to submit a support ticket at http://support.horizondatasys.com if you still have issues during your installation. The techs will be able to help you out.

[robrey51]

I submitted a trouble ticket on 02/24/10 about the MBR error. I received a reply that currently Windows 7 is not supported but the new release will support Windows 7. The new release should be available in about 3 weeks. Which with my calculations should be roughly the middle of March.
So does Version 9 support Windows 7 or not?

Thanks for the help

[Nick10]

Windows 7 is currently not fully supported with Drive Vaccine. However, the RollBack Rx does fully support Windows 7. The Drive Vaccine application will be updated and made publicly available in the middle of March 10'.

[rjudrok]

So, Drive vaccine pc will be fully supporting windows 7 starting from the 10th of March? Because after installation i'm not even able to start it. Neither from the Task Bar nor the icon in Programs Folder.

[HDS-Jacob]

Originally Posted by Nick10

Windows 7 is currently not fully supported with Drive Vaccine. However, the RollBack Rx does fully support Windows 7. The Drive Vaccine application will be updated and made publicly available in the middle of March 10'.

Greetings rjudrok and thanks for stopping by the forum!

I think what Nick meant is that the Drive Vaccine application will be updated middle of March (this month).

[robrey51]

It is the 19th of the month.
Is there any update on when a Windows 7 version will be available?

[HDS-Jacob]

Hi robrey51, thanks for stopping by the forum. Let's see if we can get an answer for you.

[robrey51]

Well it looks like no one has an answer to this question.
I purchased a 3 pack. Put it on my XP machine in hopes that my WIN7 machines would soon follow suite. I guess not.