TeraByte PartWork for Windows

So, a couple things... It seems to be that none of EaseUS, AOMEI, MiniTool, Macrorit, or NIUBI offer integration into other products. Meaning, I can create an RE boot disc with IFW along with PartWork (and pretty much whatever else I want). Do any of these other titles offer integration of any kind with any other product? Can I have the ability to work with partition and restore images (or extract data data) on the same disc? To my knowledge no, at least not to the same effect. Also, with PartWork, I can reorder partitions consecutively. I don't think anything else mentioned can do this. In short PartWork is not your grandpa's partition software. It's that, on steriods, for nerds, and it's worth every penny.

 

As an IFW user, you are correct. I, personally, have never had an integrative need for a partition tool as you describe.

A nerd... <naaaaah...>, not me

 

A need? Nope. But if one ever comes up, I'd rather be ready.

-Signed,

King of the crippled nerds

 

My Win11 partition has been slowly filling. There is still adequate Free Space but I wanted more to cope with future updates. IFW and PartWork for Windows were used. The original...




I didn't want to slide DATA as that would have been time consuming so Mint221 was deleted and restored behind DATA.



Then I did slides on a few partitions and a Win11 resize...

 

I'm a long time user of MiniTool Partition Wizard, but I don't think it has anything similar to the PartWork for Windows "Reorder GPT" functionality.

 

I mean, it's just how I roll.

 

What is this "reorder GPT" function good for? Unless I am missing something, I think it´s basically useless.

 

@Robin A. - I tend to agree. It seems more cosmetic than a real fix/repair function. Of course, the nerd I'm not

 

It's not necessary, but it'll help remove gaps. Or, if you are multibooting and you delete a partition with an OS. It basically just makes sure things are cleaned up and streamlined.

 

If you delete a partition you don't get a gap in the Reorder GPT list if you have Remove MS GPT Gaps selected. The Microsoft partitions move up (even if they are below Linux partitions) and these partitions get new Partition IDs. That might not be ok if you are relying on a certain partition to have the same Partition ID each time Windows boots. For example, if you have a script that references the partition with the old Partition ID, the script won't run if the Partition ID has changed. You can fix the Partition ID with Reorder GPT and the script will run. For data partitions not associated with scripts, it doesn't matter if the Partition ID changes.

 

One type of script could be a backup script. If the backup partition has a change in Partition ID, the script won't run.

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite\imagew64.exe" /wait /b /d:{684BD68D-BC4D-426D-A7CC-A621A93251E4}@0x1,0x2,0x3,0x4 /f:{ED486460-7118-1AD0-A75D-585E9773FFFF}@0x2:"\TeraByte_TBI_Backups\Backup-w4-0x1-0x2-0x3-0x4-$~YYYY$-$~MM$-$~DD$-$~HHMM$" /vb /hash

The Partition ID for the backup partition in this script is 0x2.
{ED486460-7118-1AD0-A75D-585E9773FFFF} is the Drive GUID. It's the drive containing partition 0x2.