TC Read-only modus (USB Stick)

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2005-03-02, 13:34 UTC

I have installed TC on a network drive and i execute it from there. I run some tests with NAV 2002 installed on the PC.

Nav Enabled: TC starts in about 4 seconds.
Nav Disabled: TC starts in less than 1 second.

Typical Symantec product behavior.....

DarkRuleR · Post by *DarkRuleR » 2005-03-02, 15:28 UTC

Hmmm...

When I have Nav enabled it can take 30 seconds of more to start TC.
My USB-Stick lists as "Tiny Disk" in the new hardware dialog.

Maybe Nav think its a normal drive and want to check for a virus in the boot sector?
Dont know if that works the same as on normal HDD drives??

Gtx,
DR...

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2005-03-03, 09:13 UTC

DarkRuleR wrote:Maybe Nav think its a normal drive and want to check for a virus in the boot sector?

Probably yes. That's the way it should be. What i don't like (and probably everyone that uses NAV) is that it takes 3-4 times more time to start TC when using NAV...

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2005-03-03, 21:23 UTC

Maybe it helps to use the unpacked version of TC (without the UPX packer)? I doubt it, though, that it would help in this case, but you may try it (search the forum for a link to the unpacked version).

Sir_SiLvA · Post by *Sir_SiLvA » 2005-03-03, 22:01 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:Maybe it helps to use the unpacked version of TC (without the UPX packer)? I doubt it, though, that it would help in this case, but you may try it (search the forum for a link to the unpacked version).

Allways the same:
http://clubtotal.free.fr/index.php?dir=TC_Releases/

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2005-03-04, 08:52 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:Maybe it helps to use the unpacked version of TC (without the UPX packer)? I doubt it, though, that it would help in this case, but you may try it (search the forum for a link to the unpacked version).

I had tried it in the past Christian. No difference...

DarkRuleR · Post by *DarkRuleR » 2005-03-04, 09:17 UTC

wanderer wrote:
ghisler(Author) wrote:Maybe it helps to use the unpacked version of TC (without the UPX packer)? I doubt it, though, that it would help in this case, but you may try it (search the forum for a link to the unpacked version).
I had tried it in the past Christian. No difference...

I can confirm this.
Tried with the unpacked version and the result was the same.
Very slow start >20 secs.

I''m afraid that the only thing I can do now is send the USB-Stick to Mr. Ghisler.

DR...

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2005-03-07, 20:36 UTC

How about this: Create a little batch file, which
- copies everything to a subdir of %temp%
- runs TC from there
- waits until it is closed
- deletes all files in the subdir on %temp%