TeraByte Product Release Thread

For what it's worth, this is how I install BIBM.

Boot from the BIBM CD/UFD and click Cancel
Click OK to enter maintenance mode
Click Partition Work and make sure you have at least 8 MB of Free Space on HD0 (Free Space inside an Extended Partition doesn't count)
Resize the final partition 8 MB smaller if you don't already have 8 MB of Free Space.

Boot from the BootIt BM CD/UFD
Setup... Click OK to install BootIt ...
Setup... Put a tick in Change all MBR type drives to EMBR and click Yes to enable support for more than 4 primary partitions
Setup... Click Yes to let setup choose the partition for you
Setup... Click Yes to install to a dedicated partition. No tick in Install to any drive
Setup... Click OK to begin
Setup... Click OK for Setup completed successfully
click Close
Setup... Click OK for the Remove the boot disk and click OK to restart
BM will boot to a Boot Menu
Click Maintenance

 

I now have BiBM installed on the SSD. Along with the current W7 on the L460, I activated a W10 VHD to have a license for future use when I get around to implementing W10. The Win7 boot menu allows me to boot either W7 or the W10 vhd. Does BiBM allow me to do this too?

 

BIBM wouldn't boot the VHD. You would boot Win7 and then see the Win7 boot menu.

BIBM allows you to have independent OS. There is no sharing of booting files so if you delete any OS, the others are still able to boot.

 

You might be able to send keystrokes from BIBM to the Windows boot menu to select which one to boot. If so, you could setup different BIBM menu items for each. You probably have to use the classic Windows menu (Windows 7 style), though.

 

Hello,

TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite - Image for Windows version 3.04 has been released.
Webpage: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm
Downloads: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-image-for-windows.htm
Upgrade History: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/upgradehist-image-for-windows.htm

 

Hello,

BootIt Bare Metal version 1.35b has been released.
Webpage: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal.htm
Downloads: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-bootit-bare-metal.htm
Upgrade History: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/upgradehist-bootit-bare-metal.htm

 

Hi
i have a drive image of a evo 850 pro 256gb

i want to mount 2 evo pro 256gb in raid to double the speed , i know it 's not secure but i want to try how fast is it with 2 drive in raid

can i restore with image for windows or linux the drive image of a single drive to a raid (made with 2 evo 850 pro 256gb ) ?
thanks

 

Mantra, I don't think you'll get double the speed

If it's a hardware RAID setup, it should restore just fine.

 

hi TheRollbackFrog
why ?

i remember before the ssd , many workstation are used to have several hard disk seagate in raid ,to obtain a fast transfter rate

thanks

 

The reason you obtained that fast transfer rate was because in a RAID system with ROTATING HDDs, there was a big win getting the DATA from the HDD whose rotation was closer to the needed disk sector (or wasn't busy moving and positioning to the needed sector). Those elements are GONE with SSDs. The only thing to be gained is access to the SSD which isn't currently spewing back requested DATA from a previous operation.

Fell free to pass on any useful numbers you may calculate (and how is was done) but I don't think the gains will be anywhere near what they were with rotating HDDs.

 

hi TheRollbackFrog
thanks a lot for the information , and thanks because i won't try to use 2 or more ssd in raid
just out of curiosity have you tried 2 ssd in raid ? the data should be saved 1/2 on an ssd and 1/2 on another ssd

 

Read this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

Panagiotis

 

Panagiotis , really interesting article , and in the conclusion the author makes a good point
thanks!

 

You're welcome

Panagiotis

 

Great read... thanks!

 

You're welcome

ps. I just came across this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjoWMA5d84 . A must see for s

Panagiotis

 

Panagiotis, we used a lot of those and their previous gen version of 650mB.

BUT... the first one I ever used, Circa 1968, was this one. It's total capacity was 450mB. We used to save the individual platters (after a head crash) to make patio tables...

 

Wow... .

Panagiotis

 

Wow...for the lady or....

 

The lady is fine but not my taste... I was born a decade later and from kid till now I never figured why that hairstyle was so popular in the sixties...

The Wow was for Froggies comment "We used to save the individual platters (after a head crash) to make patio tables... "

Panagiotis

 

That was only if the crash wasn't too bad. When the head crash was bad, the flying magnetic head would dive into the magnetic oxide surface so hard that it would obliterate it and grind into the layer below... which just happened to be magnesium. Magnesium has this interesting property that one it starts burning, it can supply its own oxygen and burn up a storm. The platter would self ignite and burn across the entire surface, around the outside edge, and down the other side of the platter. We would have to leave it alone until it was fully burned out. The burning heat was too hot and fire extinguishers couldn't put the fire out due to the oxygen creating magnesium.

It was like gathering around a bonfire while camping... Luckily only one or two of the 26-platters on the device would burn during a serious head crash... and those type of crashes were rare (<2> in 7-years), but a regular crash happened about once every 3-weeks on average.

 

Hello,

TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite - Image for Windows version 3.05 has been released.
Webpage: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm
Downloads: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-image-for-windows.htm
Upgrade History: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/upgradehist-image-for-windows.htm

 

Hello,

BootIt Bare Metal version 1.35c has been released.
Webpage: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal.htm
Downloads: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-bootit-bare-metal.htm
Upgrade History: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/upgradehist-bootit-bare-metal.htm

 

As previously mentioned, I have BBM installed on an SSD and use it to boot W7x86 and W7x64. I also
have a 2nd SSD that has been empty up to now. I installed Win8 on the 2nd SSD and I no longer have
access to the BBM boot menu. When I boot, instead of the menu appearing, the system boots directly
to Win8. I thought all I had to do was reactivate BBM, but that option is greyed out and only upgrading
is offered. If I use the BIOS (F12) boot menu and boot the 1st SSD, I get the BBM boot menu showing
all OSes, but that doesn't stick.

On another laptop with 2HDDs, I have a similar setup and I always get the BBM menu even when installing
W8 on the 2nd drive. I'm not sure what I've done wrong. BBM has its own partition on the 1st drive at the end.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this?