Restoring V drive?

[7leagueboot]

Rollback gets me out of trouble very often. Until today, whenever I rollback all I see is "Loading snapshot". Today, it began with that and then displayed "Restoring V drive". Can someone tell me what that is and why it suddenly did that please?

The problem I am having with my machine is that for no apparent reason and with zero provocation it cuts out and restarts, just as though the current had been cut. It isn't a power problem though because being a laptop, it would instantly switch to battery and it doesn't do that. I suspect the motherboard however, it's impossible to get Dell to answer my support requests.

Anyway, the point of this is that each time it cuts out like that I lose data and it damages the HDD which is why I immediately rollback to avoid serious problems. That said, this is likely the cause of the V drive restoration, whatever that is...

[HDS-Jacob]

Hello 7leagueboot,

Feel free to submit a ticket to support at the Horizon DataSys Facebook page under the support tab Horizon DataSys | Facebook or at http://support.horizondatasys.com and let's see if we can get you some suggestions here.

Best,
Jacob

[7leagueboot]

Request made on Facebook page. I should add that the message was not "Restoring V drive" but "Restoring V disk image".

[Owl]

Could "V" refer to "virtual"? Perhaps RBRx (or somethinge else) uses a virtual RAM disc?

[7leagueboot]

I imagine that "V" means virtual. Always thought that but this is the first time I have seen such a message so, apart from wanting to know what it means, I'm also interested to know whether I may have a problem given that this was the exception rather than the rule?

If indeed I do have a problem, I will uninstall Rollback, perform HDD repairs using Spinrite 6 and then reinstall Rollback. But if I can avoid that obviously I would prefer to because I would lose my original baseline snapshot (O/S, drivers, and security suite only).

[Owl]

That said, I don't see how RBRx or anything else can be sure to protect you from these outages. If you have got away with it this far count yourself lucky, I would have been getting my data out of there after the first instance and looking to move on.

I don't think Support will be able to help you until your hardware problem is solved.

See also my reply in the other thread here, you may not have a disc problem but similar considerations apply. Get the disc out and recover whatever you need on another machine.

[carfal]

7leagueboot, the message "Restoring V disk image" on boot is the normal process that Rollback takes whenever your PC Shuts Down or Reboots unexpectedly. I believe the "Restoring V disk image" (this is a guess) was introduced to fix the terrible intermitent corruption issues Rollback V8 and early V9.0 had.

However this is not the root cause of your problem. Your computer rebooting unexpectedly is a result of the famous BSOD only your not seeing your BSOD because of a simple setting that needs to be changed.

1.Go to START>CONTROL PANEL
2. Click on "System" icon
3. On the left click on "Advanced System Settings"
4. Click on setting as shown

System Properties.jpg

5. Then click on "Advance" tab and UNCHECK the setting below as shown

System Properties2.jpg

The next time your computer BSOD's you'll see the blue screen with info on what happened and with which file. This will give you some insight as to what is happening to your system.

[7leagueboot]

Excellent, thank you so much Carfal!

@ Owl
What you suggested makes plenty of sense however, because my system is so unstable I backup everything I do to an external drive immediately. In the evening, before shutting down, I make a clone of the main external drive to another external drive just in case one of them should fail (it has happened to me in the past). I do have a second machine whose content is identical makin it very easy to synchronize between the two.