Persystent Repair Review

Persystent Repair is a new technology recovery system for workstations. Persystent checks and protects windows files, system state and system registry. Persystent Repair checks the operating system before the operating system can begin to boot and engage. With this checking your system just after the BIOS, this software is used for business continuity and disaster recovery. Although the software does not back up data files, it makes sure your computer's operating system remains fully functional.

Persystent failed on my HP laptop because of a hidden restore partition. With so many computers with hidden partitions, the program should be changed to allow this. My choice after discovering this was to install the software inside of virtual machine running Windows XP Pro.

Persystent's licensing appears to be straight forward. A key is sent and used

during the installation process. This key can be misleading when using Microsoft Windows Vista. As you can see from picture one below, the key appears to be a registry entry. Windows XP Professional cannot identify the key due to the lack of a file association (This is how the key should appear in all versions in this author's opinion). During the initial installation, the program requested the key and the key failed. (See pictures and information below).

Licensing during this review was provided with a downloaded key as stated above. The use of this key gave odd results. During the initial adding of the key, an error was given that indicated that the key was blank. The second try showed that the key was blank and not a Demo or Registered. The key finally went on the third try. No other applications were running that could have affected this entry.

After installing the key, the computer was scanned by Persystant's engine. This scan was finished within minutes and the software requested a reboot. This initial reboot was followed by a seondary reboot at which time the image was created. The image took around twendy minutes with a dual core, 2 Gb laptop. This is exceptionally quick considering the number of files I keep on my laptop. The program gave a detailed progress report on the number of files copied and files remaining. During this process, the system state and registry are backed up to ensure a complete recovery in the event of a disasterous failure.