Dollar Bill
Member
I keep getting an error message during install. "RestorIT 7 can not get contiguous space on boot disk. Please use the Disk defragmenter tool to order the disk and try again."
I did defrag the boot disk using Winutilties. But got the same msg again.
I am using win7 Premium 32bit. Any help?
Idunnobutiwastold
Gaming Acolyte
On my Windows XP system, I did not need to defrag, but I did allocate the smallest amount of storage space allowed by the program. I'm just guessing, but try backing up some of the data off the hard drive to make more space and defrag again.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
I've spent all ady moving data off two computer so that I could install, but still get the same message as above.
Dollar Bill
Member
never could make the damn thing install. I have a one TB drive with about 600 mb free. No answer from GAOTD Team nor developer to this post. Do they read the Forums???
Terms and conditionsPlease note that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations: 1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage.
THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY LAW, END USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOWNLOADED SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
Sorry, but these are the rules every user can read on the download-page and in the readme.txt
graylox
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
I never did get this software to install even though I created a large contiguous area on my main hard drive. I ended up clearing nearly 300Gb of space and defragged twice yet the software still threw up the same message about contiguous space requirements.
Ah well, maybe it'll come around again. I'll have to check to see what freeware suggestions were made.
regus_patoff_2000
Member
"RestorIT 7 can not get contiguous space on boot disk. Please use the Disk defragmenter tool to order the disk and try again."
By the time I freed up disk space, the give away was over :(
Although not really practical for the giveaway, I believe software like yesterdays giveaway is best installed immediately after installing the OS on a clean machine. Installing it on a PC that might already have stability issues - and certainly disk space issues is no doubt far from ideal.
To tell the truth - I see products like that on GOTD and just cringe, fully expecting in the days to follow users posting in the forums that their PC is unusable as a result of installing the software - and due to various reasons, the software failed to work and wouldn't uninstall cleanly and they are left with a half working pc facing the only real option to attempt a repair install or clean install.
Robert
StrayCat
Reading BuBBy's post I'm not sure if this calls for a rerun,although I was planning to suggest one. :)
Looks like most users were still defragging their system (to get enough contiguous free space at the end of their system partition) by the time the giveaway was over.
Although some mentioned on the www they could slightly alter the end of the install path
and get the contiguous space error to disappear.
RestorITt 7 looks like a nice addition to XP/Vista,not so much for 7 with its extended repair options at boot time.
Installed ok on a XP/Vista dual boot using custom setup ( although I expected more 'advanced' setup options,such as excluding partitions/drives from monitoring).
No such thing as disappearing snapshots when booting into another partition or 'looking' at other drives.
Somehow RestorIT 7 looks like a crippled version of what should have been a good program,missing simple things like creating a bootable rescue cd/dvd or managing restore points.
...But I find it amazing this program seems to be constantly triggering my ancient a: drive.(lol)...
(And of course, dedicated gotd installers should take complete system snapshots on a regular base...)
Just my 2cents.
mikiem2
Moderator
Ah well, maybe it'll come around again. I'll have to check to see what freeware suggestions were made.
FWIW I wouldn't lose sleep over missing RestoreIT, though you still might want to check to see if it didn't install the FarMntIo.sys, HCDisk.sys, & VvBackd5.sys drivers -- at least one of those can get installed before you even see the setup dialog window.
RestoreIT creates a pseudo virtual drive made up of individual 2 GB *.RIT files that according to the manual lose their content if you *look* at the partition where they're stored with an OS that doesn't have RestoreIT installed. You create a system snapshot, which is a full backup to that pseudo virtual drive -- the idea as I understand it is RestoreIT then performs incremental backups, recording anything that changes from that snapshot.
Personally, & totally FWIW, I don't like this sort of app [moreso when not implemented well IMHO like this GOTD], because overall they're inefficient at what they do [why store everything rather than just changes?], & because while RestoreIT for example works like a Windows Undo button, it doesn't provide any of the other benefits you'll get from using other safety or backup methods.
One way to go about it is to perform regular disk/partition image backups -- if you want to minimize the time & disk space it takes, when you setup your system install your software to a 2nd partition as possible, keeping the used portion of the system [Windows] partition small. You can also have more than 1 OS installed -- using the 1st to restore the 2nd is in my experience faster than using most any bootable disc/USB device... to me this is 1 reason to keep your old version of Windows when you upgrade, e.g. XP or Vista to win7. Note however you'll probably still want to have a method of restoring the disk from a boot CD or USB stick etc., both in case that 1st OS becomes damaged & in case malware effects the Master Boot Record. Some people prefer something like Paragon's system backup that they have available stand-alone or as part of one of their other apps -- the main differences you'll see are it works in the background automatically, & it adds the same sort of restore program you'd burn to CD to your hard drive, so you can restore a backup from a boot menu.
Using virtual drives/partitions OTOH may be the fastest way to try something out & put things back afterwards -- they can also provide an extra measure of safety &/or security [e.g. Truecrypt]. Since a virtual disk is just a single file, it can be copied over to restore it, cleared to get rid of contents/changes. Returnil is one app that's always been popular with some GOTD folks, where everything you do is written to a virtual drive rather than your real Windows system - Wondershare's TimeFreeze is a lighter weight alternative that works more-or-less the same way, with all changes either written to your real drive/partition or lost on re-boot. Sandboxie is another, basically similar alternative, & several companies like Dell KASE have system &/or app virtualization products. [Note that we *may* see several new virtualization products as VMWare, perhaps the VM leader, has just priced themselves beyond the reach of many businesses.] Virtual Machines use an OS installed to a virtual disk, let you switch between your regular OS [Windows] & the VM, & can be easier to work with & restore, but they use fake hardware so aren't suitable for everything, e.g. games needing D3D. Installing Windows & software to a bootable virtual disk [*.vhd] works with the win7 boot loader [a free app called EasyBCD can help a lot], but while you can use real hardware, you can only be in one OS at a time, unlike with VMs. Windows 7 VPC has a neat option, where the VM itself can use a 2nd virtual drive much like Returnil & TimeFreeze do -- when you enable Undo Disks all changes are written to an automatically created 2nd virtual drive that you can clear, merge, or keep using as is.
Anonymous
Unregistered
the fix comodo time machine & a may be you need Disk defrag MFT (Master File Table)
only http://www.raxco.com/ only (PerfectDisk) &
http://www.diskeeper.com/ (can fix as far as I know also MFT free space may be to small)
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