On reboot, all files revert to previous versions

UsernameIssues said:

Garmy said:

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If I edit a photo and scribble over it and save it, those pixels I drew over should be gone from existence.
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Do that while recording everything with Process Monitor.

This is pretty neat.. I had no idea just how much stuff was running behind the scenes. Did you want me to save a log of the save file events and share them? If so, how do I do that? I see almost everything is marked as SUCCESS, except for a few operations marked as BUFFER OVERFLOW and NAME NOT FOUND.

MilesAhead said:

Any chance you can clone the boot drive to another HD and boot from that? If it's proven conclusively it's only the SSD with the problem at least you can proceed from there.

The first thing I'd try is to see if you can use another drive to get back on the air with your current set of programs. If that works out then you can check into what to do about the SSD as far as warranty or replacement etc..

Unfortunately, I don't have another drive I can do this with.

You can use File > Save.

Just leave everything at the default save settings.

Compress/zip using Windows (file) Explorer and see if it is small enough to upload to a post. If it is too big, we can work on some filtering,

Here's the PML: http://www.develteam.com/userdata/Ga...ed/Logfile.zip

I opened MSPaint and opened the photo, then opened Procmon, then scribbled on the image, saved it, closed MSPaint, and then stopped the logging with Control+E in Procmon, then saved the output of it.

Thanks for the log file. I'll look thru it in a little while. In the mean time, please do the same thing to a test photo while in the safe mode. Just the normal safe mode - not the safe mode with networking or any other things.

Safe Mode


edit:
You can record with Process monitor if you want...
...but I was mainly wondering if the file changes stick if in the safe mode.

No, the changes don't stick in safe mode. Edit: Btw, the changes (in both boot modes) stick UNTIL I reboot. So if I save the altered photo and close it, reopening it will retain the changes, until I reboot.

Garmy said:

No, the changes don't stick in safe mode. Edit: Btw, the changes (in both boot modes) stick UNTIL I reboot. So if I save the altered photo and close it, reopening it will retain the changes, until I reboot.

Thanks... I was hoping to see some process anomaly that explained why that is. If the clue is in that Process Monitor log file, I'm not seeing it :-(

The fact that you cannot make a change stick while using another OS (e.g. booting to something other than the OS on the drive) points to a weird hardware issue....... but you knew that

Either HD Tune barfed something during that scan or this weirdness was going to happen anyway.

You should probably turn your attention to running diagnostics on that drive. But that is not my area; so, I'll let the hardware guys help you (if you need help).

Thank you for pouring over my process log.

I've done some more research and found many posts on forums by googling "SSD Time Warp" and "SSD Groundhog Day." I guess it's a somewhat common thing. The only fix I could find was to update the firmware (which I can't find for this drive), but almost all of these threads go unsolved. I guess it's just a thing with SSD's. I'm going to order a new drive, but it would a shame to toss this one out if there's a fix for it.

Keep us posted