Mike. Flex settings are contained in the c:\users\username\appdata\roaming folder. Appdata is normally hidden.
Make a backup of it and you can restore when there is an event like yours. Does not explain why you had the problem, but it is good preventative medicine. Keith On 5/2/11 11:52 AM, "Michael Walker" <[email protected]> wrote: > Good question and 1 I might have overlooked. It wouldn't hurt to now double > check to make sure non of the pointers are messed up. Again, good point. > > Steve Gibson hasn't updated it since 2004 as there has been more need to > even with todays computers (it just does not work on SSHD). > > Spinrite does nothing at the file system level by design. In fact it can > run on encrypted information as it does not require to actually know what > the information is, it just needs to ensure that the 'noise/bits' are > reporting the right checksums and parity. This is what makes it so much > better. It actually does surface repair. If it can't read a sector, it > moves the head a fraction and then tries again (and again and again) until > it is able to read the data. Once read, it moves it to the new sector and > marks the old sector bad. > > As a thought then, should Power SDR not then report that it cannot read it's > configuration file and that we are creating a new one? I have seen this > happen at least once before. > > This is Windows 7 64bit on a Quad Core AMD box with 8G of memory. My AV is > Microsoft Security Essentials and I haven't done anything majour in terms of > a clean up. > > Mike va3mw > > > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Tim Ellison <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does the tool check at the NTFS level where corruption is more prevalent? >> This looks to be low level only where chkdsk will do the higher level file >> system checks as well as low level checks. NTFS has changed since 2004 when >> the last version of SpinRight was released >> >> >> >> >> >> -Tim >> >> >> >> *From:* Michael Walker [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Monday, May 02, 2011 11:35 AM >> *To:* Tim Ellison >> *Cc:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [Flexradio] 3K settings disappeared and PSDR hanging >> >> >> >> Hi Tim >> >> >> >> Yes, big UPS. Not an issue. >> >> >> >> Also, (since you brought it up ;) ), chkdsk seems to cause more problems >> than it solves. >> >> >> >> Just to be sure, I ran spinrite (www.grc.com) and it reports no drive >> errors. This does a great job of working with the drive offline and >> communicating only with the drive controller (and not through windows). >> >> >> >> http://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm if anyone cares to have a look. >> >> >> >> I am sort of passionate about this tool. It is the number 1 solver of >> systems seeming to get slower after time with the number 1 reason that our >> bigger hard drives spend a lot of time doing sector repair by moving the >> sectors to new ones when they think they are going bad. It has just solved >> many hard drive issues (including PVR's, Tivo's etc.), that I can't >> recommend it enough. >> >> >> >> And, no, I don't get anything from them. >> >> >> >> Off soapbox. Still not sure why I lost all the settings. >> >> >> >> Mike va3mw >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Tim Ellison <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Does the battery have enough charge to handle the voltage transfer? I have >> seen corruption on the hard drive if the battery will not be able to handle >> the inrush current of the attached devices during transfer to battery power. >> The battery will "look" good, but can't handle the transfer event. >> >> Run "chkdsk c: /r /f" from the command line to make sure the drive is not >> damaged. >> >> >> -Tim >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Walker >> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 8:24 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Flexradio] 3K settings disappeared and PSDR hanging >> >> Hi All >> >> I apologize if this was discussed before, and if it was, I couldn't seem to >> find it when I searched. >> >> Yesterday when I turned the 3K on, it was as if the radio had never been >> connected. All my setting were gone. While on the startup it didn't want >> to go through the FFT calibration. >> >> All my audio profiles, dsp, anr, etc. settings were gone. My CAT settings >> were correct. >> >> The computer is UPS'd however the radio is not and we did have a power >> failure (power sdr was not running nor was the radio being used). That >> eliminates any hard drive corruption for the most part. Also PSDR was not >> running at the time. >> >> OK, now I've got everything set up the way it was. >> >> Then, I went to import the microphone profiles (both the HC4 versions) and >> it took about 1 minute to do and during that minute the entire power sdr was >> totally frozen. So much so, I thought I was going to have to kill PSDR. >> >> Yes, I can do a database reset, but that doesn't answer the question why. >> Anyone else had this? >> >> Many thanks! 73... >> >> Mike va3mw >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> [email protected] >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flexradio.com/ >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ -- Keith Goobie [email protected] Richmond Hill, Ontario _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
