TeraByte Product Release Thread

OSD Tool Suite question!

I have a SATA drive that WAS part of a RAID1 setup in WIN XP 32 bit. One drive failed YEARS ago and I have been running ever since on the single drive. I found when I changed my BIOS to non-raid, XP, of course would no longer boot.

So, If I got IFW and OSD, is there a way I can tell an image of my drive that it is now not RAID? Some have said all I can do is reinstall XP! There is no way I will do this as I want to keep all my programs and data...just tell XP that I am not using the RAID driver any more and go to its built in non raid driver!

 

MPSAN,

Do you want to use AHCI or IDE mode? What would be the advantage over what is currently working?

See http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/howto/index.htm

Have a look at the video called "Restoring to dissimilar hardware using Image for Linux". Ignore the first two thirds of the video but the interesting part is "Install a Specific Driver" and "Install a Default IDE Driver".

Installing drivers is also described on page 35 of the TBOSDT userguide pdf. You don't have to "Remove Installed Drivers".

I know you will have an image backup before you start the procedure.

 

Well, I thought I would use IDE. Isn't AHCI for stuff like eSATA?

I was thinking that running it as a RAID1 with a drive gone was causing overhead and slowing the system down. If I would get no improvement, then I may as well not try this!

 

I doubt you would see any improvement.

I think most SATA drives would be run in AHCI mode. IDE mode is mainly used with old motherboards.

 

OK, well it is an older MoBo and is a SATA drive. I may leave it alone 'til I build a Haswell/Z87 system!

 

I believe that AHCI mode is for RAID. And, instead of having ACHI drivers, since you are running RAID, then you need Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) drivers. Though, I might be wrong.

Best regards,

Mohamed

 

Well, I believe that XP has the non-raid drivers built in, but the problem is that once it is installed with the raid drivers it no longer looks for the built in non-raid drivers. I was looking for a way to change this without a complete re-install...that I will not do.

 

Brian , may i ask you a question?
do the bibm , image for linux and image for windows ( active boot disk 7.5.2 still vista based i guess ) uses the same technology in the restore an image to a ssd?

 

mantra,

The TeraByte apps can image/restore from different environments. The TeraByte OS, DOS, Linux, Windows, the various WinPE. Use your favourite. Depending on your hardware, one might be faster than the others.

 

hi
image for windows under winpe active boot disk is amazing slow

image for linux is amazing fast , but at the reboot it does reset my pc , i mean it did not perform a good reboot like winpe, do you know why? is there a fix for the reboot?

i have both on an usb stick created with yumi

 

mantra,

I lost interest in running ISOs from a Grub UFD. I prefer to run the original UFDs as they boot faster.

I run IFW restores from TBWinRE and I find an IFW restore runs almost but not quite as fast as an IFL restore. Actually, I run them both from SSD partitions as they boot faster than UFDs. I can restore my Win 8.1 partition in 3 minutes.

I have no problems with /rb:4 reboots.

 

it doesn't reset well my usb3 external hard disk
can i change /rb:4 ?
with image for linux i restore in 2 minutes , image for windows in actvie 8 minutes
is there in image for linux a command line to shut down the external hard disk?
thanks

 

IFW is slow in your Active@ Boot Disk. Have you tried IFW in TBWinRE?

In IFL Options, "Reboot when Completed" should take you back into Windows. Doesn't this happen?

I'm not sure what you mean by "shut down the external hard disk".

 

nope
i would love an iso pre-made to download

just like in windows , secure remove of an external hard disk or usbstick

 

It is so easy to make your own ISO. It has to be your own as it contains your IFW key. Basically, edit imagew.ini and run TBWinRE.cmd (as Admin).

That must be done manually.

 

but is it secure?

 

Hi Brian
could be the bios settings? like fastboot or other options

 

By manually I meant using the Safely Remove icon.

I suggest trying a TeraByte IFL UFD instead of the YUMI UFD.

 

there is not in image for windows(ative winpe) or image for linux or bibm such feature

i tried the iso , i mean i did burn the cd , the same issue

Brian can you please do a test ?
can you create with bibm and image for linux an image and save to a usb3 external hard disk? please

 

Not in the TeraByte apps. Use the Windows Safely Remove icon.

Sure. Both apps worked fine with a USB3 external HD and the "Reboot when Completed" option worked too.

Doesn't your IFL reboot after completing the image? Try posting in the TeraByte forum.

 

but i can't understand one thing
image for linux create a diff image in 2 miutes
bibm in 10 minutes
i guess bibm with its dos version doesn't support usb3 and it's more slow

 

I have a somewhat similar situation, except in my case the IFL to IFD speed advantage is more like 2:1 rather than 5:1.

However, in IFD's favor it boots much much quicker and is also much easier to use than IFL. Furthermore, several months ago my system wouldn't boot and when attempting to restore my IFW backup IFD was the only version of the 'Terabyte trio' that was able to discover my drives and restore my system! - imho having the flexibility of using Windows, DOS or Linux versions is invaluable and Terabyte's greatest advantage over its competition.

TS

 

is so fast ifd? but i hasn't usb3 drivers
do you save the image to an internal hard drive? did you try an usb3 drive?

thanks

 

Yes, my IFD vs IFL timing tests were based on backing up to an external USB 3.0 drive. In all likelihood the ratio of IFL's backup speed advantage over IFD is specific-hardware dependent (also note that my tests take into account the much shorter bootup time for IFD vs IFL).

TS

 

Brian
i always got this error running IFW under active boot disk v7.5.2.0

i have these files

what's wrong?