Q-dir http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir or A43 http://vault32.com/a43.html should work without needing aditional files
Hello, Thanks to @pandlouk and @Brian K for their suggestions. I decided to go with A56x64 and used Method 3 - Custom Build with Program Included in Build from the link I posted above in post # 1150. No issues creating the UFD and upon booting A56x64 was in the menu and worked as expected.
Hi all. With the release of version 3.27, I have the option of installing a new component, TBIHD. I guess I may as well give it a try. I got this from the changelog. Added the new TBIHD utility to TBIView. TBIHD allows loading .TBI files has physical hard drives. I think the 'h' is a typo. By the way. I don't usually install ProtectIT, but if I do, can I disable it from the GUI?
Hadron, From an Admin Command prompt... Code: sc stop protectit Will stop it. Code: sc start protectit Will restart it. From IFW User Manual...
ProtectIt only works on this folder... \TeraByte_TBI_Backups But you can have this folder in any number of internal and external HD partitions The folder has to be in the root of the partition.
@Brian K I tried using TBIHD, but I couldn't get it to work. How about you? I tired using different units. Disk Management reports this. Edit: I got it working. I had to tick Change Disk Sig/GUIDs.
My test computer multi-boots OS with BootIt UEFI. This is my favourite auto restore method.... Single click a Win10 tile. There is no UAC agreement to click. Win10 restarts into Linux Mint and IFL restores the latest Win10 image. Mint restarts into Win10. Total time from Win10 OS to restored Win10 OS was 63 seconds. The image restore (using metadata option) took 9 seconds.
Brian, how exactly something like this accomplished? This seems to be exactly one trying to do, and the only reason I'm even tempted to use Macrium reflect. if I can also use this method and combining it with daily differentials that would be ideal.
Nate, are you using a UEFI or a MBR system? If it's a MBR system have a look at "Booting a WIM file" in... https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/howto/tbwinre_tutorial.htm The setup is easy and you can do an auto restore without a boot disk. What I described above requires a series of scripts and needs BootIt Bare Metal or BootIt UEFI installed. Instead of having Mint installed you can use an IFL partition. That is simpler but still requires BootIt installed.
OK. Let's try the IFL method. You probably need to make another UFD with these options. Then copy the UFD partition to overwrite your current IFL partition. double click makedisk.exe, next Traditional- You have control over options. (Custom) next dot in I accept the agreement, next Global Geometry----tick in Align Partitions on 1MiB Boundaries next ignore Miscellaneous Global, next ignore Additional ifl.ini Options, next License info, next Leave Boot Drive Mounted as /tbu/boot RunList - Run Scripts Listed in scriptslist.txt BIBM Licensed Name, Product Key select USB flash drive I choose the defaults USB Layout... Partition - FAT/FAT32 partition Geometry Calculation Method... Use Device Finish Let me know when you have the IFL partition booting. It should boot to an "error" about not having scriptslist.txt and to press Enter.
Ok. done. It works fine. I now have a functional image for Linux partition aside from my USB flash drive. Sorry that it took me so long, but when I realized I would need to erase my USB drive I wanted to image it first. What's next?
OK. We'll do the build process on the UFD and copy the partition to the HD (SSD) later. For safety, we'll set up a validation and after you see how it works you could set up a restore. Choose a small image file so the test validation will be quick. Boot the UFD. Press Enter on the scriptslist.txt window. Open IFL, Validate, File (Direct), Linux, find your .TBI, Single Pass, select the partition. On the Summary screen click Show Command. Click Save to File. Just after --v type in --uy. (This stops IFL from asking confirmations). You will now have --v --uy --f: Scroll to the end of the line and add --rb:4 This is the Reboot parameter. Make sure there is a space preceding -- Click OK. Select boot (folder) and press Enter. Select scripts (folder) and press Enter. In the Name field type in validate.tbs Click OK. Click Exit on IFL. Reboot into Windows. In the UFD open the scripts folder. Open scriptslist.txt and type in validate.tbs. Save it. Boot the UFD and it should auto validate and reboot. All OK so far?
Steps to do... clear text from scriptslist.txt create restore.tbs edit and add lines in restore.tbs copy UFD partition to HD/SSD resize IFL partition to 150 MiB create TBOSDT/BootNow scripts in Windows so the auto restore will happen without a UFD
For whatever reason, I'm still having trouble with the validate.TBS script. Image for linux sees the script before whatever reason nothing happens when it is actually execute. Below is the command line in my validate.TBS script.
Try this. Boot the IFL UFD. Click Exit on the IFL window. Right click the desktop and click Display User Script Menu. Select validate.tbs and click OK. Does it work?
no it does not. The script does show up in the menu, however when I select it nothing really happens. At looks as though some sort of commandline window briefly flickers, but there is no indication that anything is actually happening.
This is a very interesting dilemma. I made the change you mentioned, yet still does not run (manually or automatically). I even re-created the command line the way I did before, copying and overwriting the current validate.TBS script. In this case, I know I got the command line correct. However it still would not run the validation procedure does run if activated through the GUI but it does not run using the validate.TBS script. This whole thing might be a little bit out of my depth. I might be better off, if I determine the restores are that important to me, going with reflect; I can't even get a simple validate script to work correctly nevermind more involved scripts.
Deleting the argument from the command line seems to have no effect. The validate.tbs script still does not run manually or automatically.
