TeraByte Product Release Thread

Thanks Brian, good to know and very handy.

 

I've upgraded IFW (TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite) to v 4.03 and I see no PartWork?

 

IFW v4 simply added the foundation for the RE/PE plugins. Partwork it self is part of the BootIt collection. Once installed, add/refresh the plugins.

 

Bob,

https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/partwork-for-windows/

https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/product-download.php

You need a license for the BootIt Collection to get full function. Win Resize is not available in the Trial version.

 

An exercise with PartWork.

Say you had this drive...



You decide the EFI System partition isn't large enough. You would like it to be 400 MiB. Resize Win11 301 MiB smaller and you get this...



Slide the Win11 partition so there is zero Free Space After and you get this...



Slide the Microsoft Reserved partition so there is zero Free Space After and you get this...



Resize the EFI System partition to 400 MiB and you get this...



Done.

 

Nice exercise Brian thanks.

 

I looked at the TeraByte IFW releases.

Ver 1 went from 2002 until 2007. 5 years duration.
Ver 2 went from 2007 until 2016. 9 years duration.
Ver 3 went from 2016 until 2024. 8 years duration.
Ver 4 went from 2024 .......

I've bought all 4 versions. I guess I'll buy the next version in 2032, going on past experience. Each version is updated every 2 months or so and are free updates. Each version is licensed for use on 5 home computers.

The package is called TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite. It consists of IFW, IFD, IFU, IFL and TBOSDT.

If you buy the "Bundle", you get the BootIt Collection as well as the above. The Bundle costs $10 more than TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite.

 

I've bought all the versions too, and it can be a little frustrating to set up at first but it's well worth it. It's controls can be very nit-picky.

 

Seems like a no brainer, to upgrade from v3.60 to v4 for this price.



I don't know anything about BMT Micro though, as they were not the the company that I used for the original purchase of my Terabyte product back in 2022.

 

Tarnak,

There could be 3 different companies selling the software. Check the price of each.

 

How do I do that? I used the link from Terabyte, and that is what was offered, i.e. https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/product-download.php

 

It might we worth considering the Special Bundle.
https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/purchase-image-for-windows/

 

Tarnak,

The page has changed since I last looked.

 

I don't understand. I am doing a backup, right now.

 

Ignore my comments. Buy the upgrade.

 

Does anyone succeed in including partwork to recovery media. I have IFW 4.03 and partwork installed and also downloaded, installed and selected partwork plugin and used winpe to build the recovery media in usb pen drive. But I can’t see it in options. Do I need to do anything with TBLauncher options to get it working? Please someone clarify.

Update: I have managed to do it.

 

Version 4.04 – February 25, 2025

Added ARM64 native support.
Added Dark Mode support (NOTE: because it uses undocumented Windows APIs, it will stop working on a Windows version upgrade).
Added /ndmax (NumDrivesMax) option.
Added the accessible text options to the settings UI.
TBWinPE/RE Builder – Support for ARM64 builds, Windows dark mode, TBLauncher Icons style, plus various other enhancements and fixes.
Other potential changes, updates and enhancements.

 

I'm starting to think that mature image backup applications are running out of ideas for new features.

 

How 'bout the /MakeCoffee option for that 1st image of the day

 

Na. It'd have to be able to make a cup of tea or pour a beer.

 

Make a reliable image and do it quickly. Not really a lot of frills add value...?

 

It is nothing more than cash grabbing as the end user rarely needs to update these types of software, so if you only make / restore images or clone devices then there is no reason whatsoever to be shelling out money (especially to the likes of Acronis and Macrium, who hold their users hostage with a despicable "pay me a fee each year or I'll cripple the backup software" ransomware).

Drive Snapshot is the perfect example of an imaging software that has been around for over 20 years that barely has changed or needs to be updated as it just works.

 

I'm still using Drive Snapshot v1.49.0.19135 (16 August 2022). It's the last version before backups to a SFTP server was implemented in v1.50. I know others are using even older versions than that.

I'm also still using Macrium Reflect v8.1.8325.

 

What? DS can auto-upload to an FTP server. Where have I been?

Stand back while this cripple attempts a backflip.

 

https://i.ibb.co/kVTqp37z/Screenshot-2025-03-09-104502.png

I'm still using the old Drive Snapshot 1.44 version (October 27th 2016) that I purchased for £30, which has been perfect on every single computer that I've used it on.

Companies need to make money, so they'll keep adding features / fixing "alleged" bugs and pretending that you need to keep updating such software (ie the ransomware from Acronis and Macrium is a perfect example of this).