Image for Windows

Does anyone use Image for Windows by Terrabyte? I thought this might be simpler than using ATI.

Tried making and restoring a non essentail partition with it and was ok. Then tried the primary partition and of course this has to be done outside of Windows. Followed the instructions for making the "Image for DOS" CD and that worked ok, but don't why it has to go back to the 8.3 file name. However the problem is that IFW makes TBI files and the IFD can only handle IMG files. Have I missed something?

Anyone any ideas please.

 

djg05,

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=195318&highlight=image windows

There's a lot of information in this thread.

You are using ver 2 IFW and ver 1 IFD. The image file formats are incompatible I'm afraid and I suggest upgrading your IFD to ver 2.

In summary, you can create images, using IFW while Windows is running, and these images can be restored using the BartPE IFW plugin, IFD or IFL.

IFD can create and restore images.

 

Thanks. I did read through that but could not see the answer. I am using ver 2.

 

Check your versions:

Image for Windows

(the NEW VERSION 2.00 package)
http://terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/ifw_en.zip

Image for DOS

(the NEW VERSION 2.00 package)
http://terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/ifd_en_trial.zip

The above are links for the 2.00 trial versions...

Be certain that you are using version 2 DOS files...

rrrh1

 

Ver 2 doesn't produce .IMG files so you must be using ver 1.

 

No wrong. I said the IFW produced TBI but the IFD could only use IMG files

 

Thanks - I will try that.

 

Just going to test this program myself. One thing of interest I noticed is

Does this mean I can make an image of Windows on one machine, and then install the image to a completely different machine? I thought Windows always screwed up if you did this? I also don't see the competitor products having a similar feature?

 

It seems you have ver 2 IFW and ver 1 IFD. Ver 2 IFD can't use .img files.

 

Yes - did not see that there was a 2 ver for IFD. rrrh has now pointed me in the right direction.

I am not that keen on the interface after using ATI, but it is a lot quicker at restoring. I do like to make notes on the image so that I have a record of what I will restore and that is lacking in this. I did see the opportunity to make a brief note on backup but did not notice any for viewing in restore.

 

The IFW and IFD userguides contain this...

IFW backup images of the OS partition can be restored from IFD or BartPE (IFW plugin). Your choice.

 

Thanks - I will look at that next time.

I have read about BartPE but have run away from it.

 

It should only take you 15 minutes to make the CD.

 

I don't want to get away from the thread too much, but could you elaborate on which products have this feature and maybe which ones work well? i was thinking I could create a clean VMWare image to install on standard machines. I always thought it wasn't possible until I read the feature list.