...now Edius won't start!

[Rusty]

I had a BSOD today while transferring a project across the network.

Now Edius is stopped by Vista's Data Execution Prevention. Here's the details...

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: EDIUS.exe
Application Version: 5.10.0.13
Application Timestamp: 4a3a83c8
Fault Module Name: StackHash_e52f
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e52f
Additional Information 2: e98dfca8bcf81bc1740adb135579ad53
Additional Information 3: 860f
Additional Information 4: 6eabdd9e0dc94904be3b39a1c0583635

I have excluded Edius.exe from Data Execution Prevention, but E5 won't start.
Thankfully my project is safely backed up on my DroboPro, I do NOT need this right now!

[Rusty]

So after a couple of hours of going freaky, I need to listen to my own advise...
System Restore is Your Friend!
(sheese)
i'm ok now

[tingsern]

Hi Rusty,

Don't just rely on System Restore. Have an external backup as well (I use Acronis True Image Home), and take at least 2 generations of backups. Do that when the system is working fine - then when things do go wrong, you know you have a good backup to fall back upon.

[SoundFreak]

System Restore is Your Friend!

I'm surprised that it did work, it never worked for me though. (it have it even disabled)
Acronis Disk Director Suite (with bootable media) is my friend since years and has never let Edius down.

[Rusty]

Thanks guys...
I generally don't make such a fuss over my system drive as there's nothing in it that I can't live without. The only problem was Edius... who knows what that was about.
I've had several positive experiences with System Restore, so I'll still recommend it.

On your advice, I'll make an image tonight.

[SoundFreak]

I've had several positive experiences with System Restore, so I'll still recommend it.

I just saw that you are using Vista 64, maybe it works better in that version.( I'll wait for official hardware support to jump in the 64 bit arena with Win 7, now on software only test with 12 GB ram, nice)
I had several failure's in the past with XP, since then I use an Image, recently I also tested system restore with SP3, same result.
Now I have switched OFF system restore entirely, less traffic on the boot drive :)

p.s. even on a moderate speedy system it's only a fraction slower than system resore, and works every time .............

I generally don't make such a fuss over my system drive as there's nothing in it that I can't live without.

Same here, but an image saves hours of re-installing and tweaking, a re-image takes mostly nothing more than 10 minutes, that is from a crashed frozen windows (worst case scenario :)) to a fully up and running Edius, latest version with all OS tweaks in place..........

I even practice 2 physical HDD with OS & Edius, each having multiple stages back-up, 1 in the system, having the latest image versions, 1 more unit in my desk's drawer, usually having a little bit older Image files, but ready for immediate use even with Edius 5.12, using a swappable bay it's fast and easy :)

[antonsvideo]

same here, System Restore has failed 9 out of 10 times in many XP PC belonging to friends/neighbours etc

I use Norton Ghost 2003 to make regular images by using the floppy or CD to another internal drive, takes 9minutes to make and 9min to restore

I have restored many times when trial software caused problems such as trashing codecs

Note: never use Norton Ghost 2003 from its windows interface, this will render your PC unbootable, because Ghost 2003 was not designed with Sata drives in mind

[SoundFreak]

Note: never use Norton Ghost 2003 from its windows interface, this will render your PC unbootable, because Ghost 2003 was not designed with Sata drives in mind

Similar might apply to (powerquest) Partition Magic (before it was absorbed by the Big N), it also failed every now and then to re-store Edius, and come to think of it, I was using Sata drives.

[tingsern]

I disabled System Restore even in Vista 64. Save disk space. And - rely totally on (a) Acronis True Image Home (backup to removable HDDs) and (b) CA Restropect (backup to tape drive).

I never have an issue so far - other than the initial problem of Arconis not being to sense my USB HDD. That was for an older version of Arconis. The newest version (11) even senses my eSATA HDDs when I was booting up the standalone version. Great. No need to use the "VERY SLOW" USB HDD anymore.