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=============================================================================
Bug Fixes, Enhancements, Known Restrictions and Problems in
InspectorPC / FileRecovery
=============================================================================
"FileRecovery", consists of the FileRecovery module(Disk 1), FR.EXE, and the
ReNew/ReFresh modules(Disk 2), RENEW.EXE and REFRESH.EXE. ReNew supports
restoring both compressed and uncompressed InspectorPC backup files including
files with Long File Names even if the backup saveset is fragmented. ReFresh
(Disk 2) is designed to restore all files containing Long File Names which
have been recovered under a Maintain Directories or Flat File recovery mode.
A disk shredder module (FileShredder) is available upon request but as a
separate product. It provides a triple flux reversal process thereby making
a disk unrecoverable, even by FileRecovery.
The primary areas of strengthening and enhancements introduced in V1.04 are
large capacity drive support (>2.1GB), multiple partition support and
enhanced floppy diskette recoveries in the FileRecovery module. The major
enhancement to the ReNew module involves the ability to recognize
fragmented backups. This situation is a result of a user removing the
initial diskette before it has been completely filled to select additional
files for recovery to new diskettes under the same backup saveset name.
Bug fixes, enhancements, restrictions and known problems will be listed here
by module and bug report number. Development generated fixes and
enhancements are reflected as such and will not indicate a bug report number
in order to differentiate between those fixes and enhancements requested by
FileRecovery customers and the development team.
Please use the web, if posible, to report bugs. Our internet address is:
http://www.convar.com/freeware
In the event you do not have web access a bug report form is included
(SUPPORT.DOC) on Disk 1. It can be printed with either MS-Word or WordPad.
*** THANK YOU in advance for your responses ***
=============================================================================
Bug fixes in the Recovery module
(FR.EXE V1.04)
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 21094 2 The problem displayed by the program halting
with a memory error avail loop message has
been corrected by the fix implemented for a
potential memory allocation conflict.
2) 21898 4 When a bad diskette has been inserted and
selected as the Source Drive, receive the
"Insert Diskette" message even when the
diskette is already inserted. The user
now has the capability to hit the <enter>
key for a popup menu will ask them if they
wish to accept this disk anyway.
3) 23848 3 The problem with previously selected title
boxes not clearing but remaining in the
background on the screen with the newly
selected title box appearing over it has
been corrected.
4) 28753 4 The <Esc> key functionality now works
within the recovery type selection process.
After having chosen a compressed backup as
the recovery type and upon entering the
saveset name field hitting the <Esc> key
will now take you back to the Activity Menu
and allow you to choose another recovery
type if you so choose.
5) 6685 1 The isolated problem with the program halting
approximately 1/3 of the way through the
recovery process and aborting to return to
the DOS prompt with the following error
messages; DOS/4G (2001) exceptionEH
(page fault) error and the crash address of
CS:IP1A0:00498C86 has been corrected.
6) 7359 4 When recovering to diskette, the drive
capacity indicating available space will
occassionally add an 'M' to the 'KB'
starting with the second diskette with a
large capacity remaining indicated
(example, 496485)has now been detected,
isolated, and corrected.
7) Development Generated The Destination Partition Selection window
No Bug Report Number for disks with multiple partitions has been
moved to display before the Execute Disk
Analysis phase begins.
8) Development Generated The View Partition/Boot Information feature
No Bug Report Number has been strengthened for floppy diskette
recoveries.
9) Development Generated The ability to read all floppy diskette
No Bug Report Number capacities has been expanded to include
older floppy formats (160K, 180K, 320K,
360K, 720K).
10) Development Generated Multiple partitions are now being reported
No Bug Report Number correctly when selecting entire disk to be
recovered.
11) Development Generated The FAT12 to FAT16 conversion for floppy
No Bug Report Number diskettes problem with files located at the
end of the diskette has been corrected.
12) Development Generated The info.rcv report now reflects the single
No Bug Report Number partition information as well as all
partitions correctly on a source drive with
multiple partitions.
=============================================================================
Bug Fixes in the ReNew/ReFresh module
(RENEW.EXE V1.04)
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) None
=============================================================================
Bug Fixes in the Service-Pak Recovery module
(FRSP.EXE V1.04S)
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 24799 3 While adding additional users to the password
registration, the problem with the program
hanging while reading the floppy drive
controller-this only happens after the
addition of the 5th user or more in some
configurations has been corrected.
=============================================================================
Enhancements in the Recovery module
(FR.EXE V1.04)
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) Development Generated Dual SCSI controller configuration handling
No Bug Report Number has been implemented.
2) Development Generated The file selection marker has been changed to
No Bug Report Number white to indicate that all the directory has
been selected when it is a directory with a
single file-previously displaying grey
file selection marker to indicate partial
directory selection.
3) Development Generated The compression information is now being
No Bug Report Number recorded in the file header of each diskette
in multiple disk backup savesets.
4) Development Generated The International Character Recognition
No Bug Report Number switch has been implemented. Recovering
files with International Characters requires
running the program via the fr -i or frsp -i
command.
5) Development Generated The Sectors Per Cluster table has now been
No Bug Report Number defined for floppies as a backup to the
normal directory Sectors Per Cluster
verification.
6) Development Generated The method for reporting drive capacity has
No Bug Report Number been changed to ensure accurate drive
capacity reporting consistently between the
drive type identification phase and the drive
selection phases.
=============================================================================
Enhancements in the ReNew/ReFresh module
(RENEW.EXE V1.04):
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 13134 5 Added the ability to recognize fragmented
savesets produced in either compressed or
uncompressed backup mode on diskette. This
allows ReNew to handle those situations when
a previous diskette in a backup saveset has
been removed before it reaches end of media
mark to handle multiple backups produced in
the same saveset on additional diskettes.
=============================================================================
Enhancements in the FRDemo module
(FRDEMO.EXE V1.04)
=============================================================================
1) 16516 5 Added a popup window that will alert the user
that a compressed or uncompressed backup
recovery type will not display the first
sector of each file but will assimilate the
backup mode selected and will display the
backup progress via graph. Only Flat File
and Maintain Directories recovery mode
produces the first sector of the file to be
displayed during the recovery process.
=============================================================================
Restrictions in the Recovery module
(FR.EXE V1.04)
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) Development Generated FileRecovery does not allow you to attempt
No Bug Report Number a recovery from the Windows 95 shell. You
will receive the following message, "Sorry,
this program can not be run under the
Windows 95 shell." You must then enter
'Start; Shut Down; Restart the Computer from
the task bar portion at the bottom of your
Windows 95 screen with your FileRecovery Disk
1 inserted in the appropriate drive. At the
DOS command line enter> A:\FR to start the
FileRecovery program where A: represents the
drive where Disk 1 has been inserted.
2) Development Generated FileRecovery does not support the low level
No Bug Report Number SCSI controller cards that do not have the
on-board BIOS support (examples: ZipZoom card,
and the Adaptec 1505, 1510, 1515 cards and
SlimSCSI 1460)
3) Development Generated FileRecovery does not support disk compression
No Bug Report Number software such as DoubleSpace, DiskDoubler, or
Win95 DriveSpace.
=============================================================================
Restrictions in the ReNew/ReFresh module
(RENEW.EXE V1.04):
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) Development Generated No catalog is supported at this time. A
No Bug Report Number catalog entry will be placed in the backup
file in a later release.
2) Development Generated The current means of finding backup files is
No Bug Report Number primitive. It looks for files with the name
BACKUP.001 and checks the header. A more
reasonable system will be employed in a later
release.
=============================================================================
Known problems in the Recovery module
(FR.EXE V1.04):
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 11314 3 Disk Analysis reporting Missing Address Marks
resulting in Fatal Memory Error (M113) after
only 3,160 bad sectors. Drive appears to
be suffering extensive physical damage as
each subsequent execution of the program
results in less bad sectors being reflected
before program is locking up with Fatal
Memory error even though available memory
is sufficient.
2) 12914 3 When responding to the message a previous
backup exists on the destination drive chosen
and then reselecting the same destination
drive the program proceeds as if the files
had been written to the re-selected drive
yet the files have not been written to that
drive.
3) 1773 2 On a WinbookXP Laptop with a Toshiba 540MB
hard drive as the source drive the following
phenomena has been witnessed. The program
will complete one successful recovery attempt
but additional recovery attempts will result
in the program not initializing. Workaround
is to copy a new fr.exe over the existing
one that has become corrupted preventing the
program from initializing.
4) 23471 3 The new call, INT 21, 7303h introduced in
the Windows release (SR 2) for large drives
is not now supported by FileRecovery which
displays the correct partition size for
drives over 2.1GB.
5) 24206 3 There is currently a problem with the graph
display reflecting the recovery progress
status on the larger disk size (3.1GB). The
graph will jump to approximately the 3/4
mark on the graph immediately but then will
not display the recovery is complete by
completely filling the graph.
6) 24786 3 On some 1.6GB drives it has been noticed that
the field reflecting capacity required is
increasing rather than decreasing during the
recovery phase.
7) 25232 3 It has been noticed that on certain drives
a read request is issued for a cylinder
beyond the total number of cylinders on the
disk which will result in an audible read
attempt on the cylinder it is requesting
(example; a read request for C766 on a drive
with only 760 cylinders)
8) 25652 4 Change the F2 call for a Select All Files
action within the File Selection phase to
ignore junk directories, or any files that
have no chance of recovery.
9) 27065 3 It has been noted that pressing the space
bar next to the <Partition's Root Directory>
will display a total size of selected files
that is different than the one displayed when
selecting files by pressing the F2 function
key.
10) 29324 4 Change the method by which FileRecovery
appends files to the end of the compressed
or uncompressed backups-currently using the
DOS methodology-slows down the recovery
process when files are large and numerous.
11) 4658 3 When adding a SCSI removable for the
destination drive for recovery from a bad
identifiably bad source drive the ASPI
drivers will assign a drive letter of C:
due to corruption on hard drive resulting
in some confusion with the correct drive
letters being assigned by FileRecovery. The
workaround is to make your known bad hard
drive your slave drive and a known good
hard drive the master (if at all possible)
and the drive letter will then be reflected
correctly by FileRecovery.
12) 6972 3 While in Cluster Navigator, Manual Recovery
Mode under the Expert Experience level the
<Delete> and <End> keys referenced in the
Select Activity Menu responding to the <Esc>
key are not functioning. Workaround: Use
the hot keys (l) for Delete and (n) for End
which are functioning correctly.
13) 7155 4 When quitting the program from Cluster
Navigator under the Manual Recovery mode in
Expert experience level the credits window is
not consistent with the one being displayed
after quitting at the end of the program.
The window is shrunk together and not
centered.
14) 9499 3 The sector value displayed after 'Execute
Disk Analysis' has upon occassion been
reported incorrectly as one less sector
per track than the correct value.
=============================================================================
Known problems in the ReNew/ReFresh module
(RENEW.EXE V1.04)
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 21601 4 When choosing a floppy disk drive as the
destination drive for restoring files to, the
message should pop up requesting the user to
insert a diskette for restoring those files
to, instead the program proceeds and will
write to the ReNew disk if the user is not
careful.
2) 6857 3 Warning: When choosing a floppy diskette to
restore your recovered files to there is no
window that will pop up requesting you to
insert a diskette to restore the selected
files. Workaround: The user must make sure
to insert the diskette after selecting the
a: drive as the destination and before the
Recovery mode selection window(Maintain
Directories, Flat File, Change Experience
Level, Main Menu, Quit)
=============================================================================
Known problems in the Service-Pak Recovery module
(FRSP.EXE V1.04S)
=============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 2 Problem has been identified after completing
more than half of the recovery phase where
the program will halt and return the user to
the DOS command level. Upon reinitializing
the program the User registration slots and
Disk registration slots have been filled with
what appears to be random, garbage characters
preventing the user from performing any
additional drive recoveries even though there
should be drive slots remaining. (Workaround:
until the problem can be isolated to specific
circumstances, remove the Service Pak disk
1 after the program is well into the Execute
Disk Analysis phase to eliminate potential
corruption of remaining user and drive slots)
NOTE: the problem has only been duplicated
once in development and was as a result of a
random action, very isolated occurrence.
Verification of problem has been elusive.
2) 2 Problem has been identified with copying over
the FRSP.EXE executable on a previous disk 1
only to find that the Master password has
been corrupted and is no longer recognized.
(Workaround: must ftp the special service-pak
version that will unlock the password and
allow the user to reset the password, then the
user can copy over the most recent version of
the service pak and continue).
==============================================================================
Future Enhancements Requested in the Recovery module
(FR.EXE V1.04)
==============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 10508 5 Addition of a help screen in the View Disk by
Sector process to instruct the user of the
availability of the Page Up and Page Down
key functionality.
2) 129 5 Add the ability to switch to the View Boot/
Partition information from the View Disk by
Sector mode.
3) 13930 5 After having run the program for the first
time would it be possible to remove the
first popup window that asks if you have
ever run the program before and go directly
to the Experience Level Window displaying
only advanced or expert.
(Currently user can run the program selecting
the experience level in the startup command,
replace fr with fr -a to bring program up in
advanced experience level without initial
popup menus or fr -e to bring the program up
in the expert experience level)
4) 14758 5 Introduce some sort of messaging to indicate
what is actually taking place during the
various phases of the program, at times the
user feels uncomfortable not sure as to there
being any progress made within the program.
Would appreciate more generalized information
rather than technical detail.
5) 15288 5 User requests the ability to filter certain
types of files in the file selection phase
of the program, such a *.doc, *.dbs, *.xls,
etc.
6) 21233 5 User would appreciate an alert message to
warn the user of the results of removing a
diskette that is not completely full in
a backup (compresed or uncompressed) and
continuing to add files within the same
saveset name on new diskettes-fragmented
backups in your recovery.
(ReNew (V1.04) now has capability to recognize
fragmented savesets)
7) 237 5 Enhance the pattern recognition ability within
FileRecovery in Automatic and Semi-Automatic
file detection in order to prevent the need
to use ClusterNavigator unless absolutely
necessary or to allow ClusterNavigator the
ability to piece together clusters of the
same file type during selection.
8) 4537 5 In the file selection phase when searching
for specific files by entering file names,
add an audible that indicates the next
letter entered for the search string
responds with no match if that is the case,
currently the user is left wondering.
9) 6649 5 Implement a different shade of blue for the
identification of partially selected files in
a directory versus the entire directory
selected. Currently the user must go to the
file level within an already selected
directory to determine if part of the files
had been previously selected or the entire
directory had been previously selected.
10) 7282 5 In response to the question, "Have you ever
run FileRecovery before?", with a "Yes" reply
it would be more consistent with the message
to either eliminate the Beginner experience
level altogether or default to either
Advanced or Expert experience level.
==============================================================================
Future Enhancements Requested in the ReNew/ReFresh module
(RENEW.EXE V1.04)
==============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 14607 5 In the Backup Saveset window change the
definition at the bottom of the screen to
reflect "compressed" or "uncompressed'
saveset rather than just "backup"
2) 29479 5 After restoring multiple savesets need to add
the ability for the text color of previously
selected saveset names to change to blue to
indicate the savesets have already been
selected.
3) 4844 5 Remove the floppy drive as an available
destination drive choice when it is the only
floppy drive in the configuration and the
backup saveset is on floppy diskette since it
is impossible to have both the backup and the
recovery be on the same floppy diskette.
==============================================================================
Future Enhancements Requested in the Service-Pak Recovery module
(FRSP.EXE V1.04)
==============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
None
==============================================================================
Enhancements Scheduled for Future Recovery module
(FRSP.EXE V2.00)
==============================================================================
Bug Report#: SEV: Description:
1) 11387 5 'Explorer'
Recovery capability from a floppy diskette
that had been partially reformatted.
Explorer will allow the user to insert C, H,
S values in order to advance to certain
locations on the floppy diskette in order to
continue a read from that location forward.
Currently scheduled for Version 2.0 as new
feature.
2) 21987 5 Add a Run Diagnostic menu choice to the Main
Activity menu that has the following menu
choices; Read Reliability, Seek Reliability,
Surface Read, Addressability, Seek Timing,
and Rotation Timing.
3) 8730 5 'Configure'
The ability to bypass the BIOS in the event
the values being read by the BIOS are not
correct values. Include the ability to edit
the values being received providing valid
BPS(bytes per sector), SPC(sectors per
cluster), and RS(reserved sectors) values
which will allow FileRecovery to locate files
even when the BIOS has erroneous critical
values.
Currently scheduled for Version 2.0 as new
feature.