Image For Windows Question

Just saw your image. Don't do what I suggested.

 

You don't have image.exe in that folder. You have imagew.exe. That is what is blocking the line. Get image.exe from the IFD folder.

Glad we sorted that out. Build your tbos.bin again.

 

i can drag ifd.ini file but when i drag imagew it say disk image is full

 

See post #77 and #76

We crossed over in posts.

 

thank you 6 file now we are good to go

 

We are close to the end.

OK. Still in UltraISO, right click the tbos.str file and click View. Make sure the 3 lines are correct.

You should be up to this stage.

I deliberately put /v in your command line to run Validate. It's also a safety valve. It lets you watch Validate for 10 seconds or so and then you can press F12 to cancel the process. So do that as a test. Double click tbos.bat. Your computer should shut down, boot to IFD and the Validate part of the restore will commence. After 10 to 20 seconds press F12 to cancel and you will reboot to Windows.

Let me know what happens.

 

I forgot. You have to change the name of your backup image to Vista32.tib before you start.

 

i check the tbos.str inside the ultraiso and the line are rihgt, but when i click on the tbos.bat a messages come and say file is in fragmented

 

See post 82#

That fragmented message happened to me a few times. David said to move tbos.bin to another folder and then move it back to the original folder. This defragments the file.

 

i rename the backup to vista32 before, i move the tbos.bin to another folder and then move it back and still have same message

 

Try copying the file instead of moving. Copy it to a few different folders and then back to the original. It will work.

 

wow after i move to diferent folder i move back to the orinal folder then i click on the tbos.bat again and my comp rebot, i lost all my D Drive info my images and my music are gone, lost all, is ok cause i have all my music on a diferent drive but i lost some personal date, i guess i ****up, and at the end it dont restore nothing

 

Did IFD start and you saw the Validate process? Then you pressed F12?

 

the drive say it have 556kb and 448 kb free, and is name TBOS, I FD never start

that HD Has 400gb So i don't know what is happened

 

OK. Don't make any changes. It sounds like my problem of being stuck in the TeraByte OS.

Did you get into Windows? How do you know the drives are missing?

 

im inside of windows, i open my comp and i can see the TBOS drive that drive was my D Drive

 

I'd contact David and ask him what to do. Don't make any changes without his OK. For some reason your original partition table hasn't been restored by bootfile.exe.

Was your D: drive on the first HD?

 

im not sure but i dont think so, but im no 100% sure

 

Good news everyone. Mata7 has got his partitions back.

As they say in the movies, "Don't do this at home."

More later.

 

thanks to you i got it back, talk to you tomorow now gona play GTA 4 I really need it

 

It really to have the above .bat file modified for an optical drive. IFW doesn't function as ATI does, in that a version of it is not loaded into memory, so that an active partition can be restored without medium. And bootable discs are only created if the image is burned while being created. Thus the importance of the modified .bat file. Agree?

 

n8chavez,

I've never restored from a bootable DVD but I have restored using a Ghost image on DVD. I said, "Never again." It was so slow. And if you have the image spanned over several discs, it's like shuffling cards. I lost interest.

Can you restore a .tbi image stored on a non bootable DVD if you only have a single optical drive? I don't know.

What question are you asking about command lines? I'll try to help.

 

Well, seeing as how I can make an image of my active partion with BFB verification in four minutes, I'm too worried about that. And I can fit it on a single CD.

No you can't. But I have to so that's the issue. Why would I want to waste a disc when IFW makes bootable discs when images are made to optical disc? Short answer: I wouldn't. It would be one more needless step.

See post #63 for what I'm looking for

 

Nathan,

CD or DVD?

 

I can burn both. But my active partition image is on a 700 meg CD.