Hello,
I would like to disable a partition that contains frequently overwritten and unimportant data. In other words, mostly tempfiles, object files, and internet downloads.
Obviously, I'd rather have my backup disk full with many versions of important data rather than some obsolete rubbish which I can either recompile or download again :-)
Sounds easy enough.
The menu item for selecting drives is well available in the tray, but clicking on it does nothing. A console window seems to show up on the taskbar for the fraction of a second, but other than that, nothing happens. No error message, no warning, no feedback.
Uninstalling the software and reinstalling did not change anything. Self-update says the software is up-to-date. The executables have "full access" for all user groups. Turning off DEP made no difference.
Running Seagate-Replica-DriveSelection.exe manually did nothing. No error message, no output on the console. Running it with --help, -h, /help, and /? did not give any hints (as I had hoped).
Next, looking at the tray application's logfile, I found "DEBUG: CreateProcess OK: cmd /C C:\PROGRA~1\Seagate Replica\bin\Seagate-Replica-DriveSelection.exe -drive", which made me try launching Seagate-Replica-DriveSelection.exe -drive.
This pops up a window alright (funnily, nothing happens when the tray app does it!), but only lets me disable the solid state disk and the ramdisk, not the scratch partition (or any other partitions). The next logical thing seemed to try -partition, -part, -all, and -any instead of -drive (assuming the latter means "only physical drives"), but neither of them does anything.
Are there any other secret commandline options other than -drive that will let me do something? Do I need to assign any particularly unusual rights, or install any unusual components or run non-standard services for Redis to allow me starting the selection tool from the tray menu as intended?
Is there another way of disabling a partition? I really don't care for GUI, if this can be done manually via the Windows registry or by editing some key in the db/SystemTLD database, I wouldn't mind doing that. If it only works, I'd be happy.
System:
Windows XP Professional SP3 (32 bit)
8G RAM
- hard disk with 4 partitions
- solid state disk (can be disabled)
- ramdisk (Superspeed LCC, can be disabled)
- ramdisk with swapfile (not backed up by default)
- all filesystems are NTFS
Version:
3.0.769.6355 (as installed on the Seagate Replica drive)
Sidenote:
On my wife's Dell laptop with the second Replica drive (which supposedly runs an identical version of Rebit, as I bought both the same day and they have off-by-one serial numbers), launching the drive selection tool works ok, but again, it is not possible to deselect anything, neither the primary, nor the secondary disk.