Restarting computer fails

[Karma]

Hi, I noticed a little bug in Dekart Private Disk. When I restart my computer it intercept the signal and close its virtual drives (ok, fine!) but sends back to windows the wrong signal, so that it does not restart but shutdown. It should be not too difficult to fix. I noticed that if no Drives are mounted there is no problem.

Is this issue already known, or the problem affects only my computer?

Thanks,
Karma

This problem is not just your computer I have the same problem too. I noticed it after I installed the software and created a `container'

[Alex Railean]

Can you guys provide some basic details about your systems?

• which version of Windows you have
• which version of Private Disk you are running
• did this start to occur after you updated to a newer version?

How do you restart the machine (please mention the details)?
- start\shutdown
- by pressing ctrl+alt+del
- via the task manager
...

[Karma]

First, let me tell you what you asked for:
I use Windows XP Professional, Private Disk v2.09, and I never used Private Disk before. The problem started when I installed the application (and created and mounted a Virtual Disk).

And now...
Well, I have shutdown disabled via
regedit > HKCU "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policie s\Explorer" "NoClose" = 1
but I use to shutdown, restart, etc. via the Mini Shut Down Utilities, and it always worked.

After what you said I tried restarting in many different ways:
-> Mini Shut Down Utilities (WinRes.exe) -> it did SHUTDOWN
-> %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00 -> it did SHUTDOWN
-> NSIS built-in reboot function -> it did RESTART
-> normal start \ shutdown \ restart (after re-enabling with NoClose =0 in Policies) -> it did SHUTDOWN

So..... WHERE is the problem?

[Alex Railean]

Tell me, are the disks mounted or dismounted at the moment of shutdown?

Finally, do the Mini Shutdown Utilities offer you the chance to perform an action when an event occurs? If so, you could start Private Disk with the /unload command line parameter before shutting down (this will close the program and cleanly dismount all the disks).

[Karma]

Originally Posted by Alex Railean

Tell me, are the disks mounted or dismounted at the moment of shutdown?

Originally Posted by Kar.ma

I noticed that if no Drives are mounted there is no problem.

Originally Posted by Alex Railean

Finally, do the Mini Shutdown Utilities offer you the chance to perform an action when an event occurs? If so, you could start Private Disk with the /unload command line parameter before shutting down (this will close the program and cleanly dismount all the disks).

It is an executable I manually run, so I could use a batch file, but it would be more fine if Private Disk would fix it on its side. Oh, to be clear, all of you guys make and made a great job, so no matter if it cannot be fixed, it's a minor issue.

[Alex Railean]

Here is how things are: when the system is reset or shutdown, each program is notified about it. However, there is no way to distinguish one event from another.

There is an alternative method to detect which of those has occurred, by consulting a registry key, the value of which is modified when the event occurs - this is what we use to figure out whether it is a restart, or a shutdown.

You are using a non-standard method of shutting down the system, and it seems that when this method is used, there is no way to tell one event from another. Naturally, Private Disk cannot handle this non-standard behaviour.

So I think that using a batch file is the optimal solution for this problem.

Oh, to be clear, all of you guys make and made a great job, so no matter if it cannot be fixed, it's a minor issue.

Thanks :-)

Hi,

I'd like to return to this issue since I experience it as well and I use standard way to restart my system - through Start -> Shutdown -> Restart. If Private Disk is running the system always shuts down instead of reboot. If I unload Private Disk everything works as expected.

This is pretty annoying as I do reboot frequently.

OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Private Disk 2.09

[Alex Railean]

Some changes were applied, the current beta (2.10)is supposed to address this issue.

Try it out and let me know what the results are.

Note, the beta is a stable one.

[Alex Railean]

A workaround was found, the full story is here = the anatomy of the restart=shutdown problem.

1. Control Panel\Users
2. Uncheck "use welcome screen"