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Is (2) referring to the Partition ID, 0x02?

So the partitions are still in the same order but the partition IDs have changed?

I saw this well before I started using BIU. I assumed it was how GPT worked. I know you can edit the Partition ID on a MBR or EMBR disk but not on a GPT disk.

 

Yes. I'm searching the net if it is possible to revert it but haven't found a way to do it. And I cannot use an image to revert the change (have an initial image of the disk before installing linux, and another one after installing it but sellected multiple files when I created the second, so I cannot restore the entire disk and if I recreate the partitions and restore the linux partitions it will happen the same thing again.

 

What issues do you have with the changed Partition IDs?

 

Grub does not boot... (Unknown system partition...).
I can fix it and tomorrow I'll have to, since I need that system for work, but it should not have happened at the first place.

 

Have you checked your Boot Item? I don't know how many Ubuntu.xxx folders you have but let's say the relevant one is ubuntu.002. The Boot Item should resemble this if you are using a laptop with a single drive and using Secure boot..

HD 0
Boot EFI system partition
Boot File \EFI\ubuntu.002\shimx64.efi
a tick is present in Rename Directory

Edit.... Also, in Partition Work select the EFI system partition, click Properties. In Flags make sure Bit 55 is "BIU Managed" and has a tick.

 

I am so sick of EaseUS Backup because it cannot make a successful cloned image of the drive being used to another while just surfing around. No you have to use the recovery USB drive and pull the image to load onto a hard drive. And then the HD must not be formatted in any way different than the source. I am so sick of that crap.

I tried Image For Windows just now and it make a perfect copy of my SSD to another SSD while I was surfing. Plus when I loaded Image For Windows it didn't try to broadcast anything over the network.

I tried that other popular backup program macrium and when installing that it feels like I am letting someone run their fingers all over my HD.

Image For Windows is super simple and works. Buying soon.

 

Issue is indeed fixed, but the impact of this was that I lost nearly two months of backups due to the huge backups caused by v3.22 (and in my case, my /maxdss:600GiB setting).

I have other image backups so it is not a problem, but if I had been relying solely on IFW, that would have been a risk.

 

Panagiotis, when you restored the Root partition did you select "Update Boot Partition"? Worth trying again?

 

Yes, all was correctly set.

I tried " Update Boot Partition", "Assume original HD", "Gpt hidden from OS",etc. had restored at least 10 times (various configs) but made no effect whatsoever.

 

I forgot to ask whether you have tried an ESP restore as Grub is in the ESP.

In ubuntu.xxx, does grub.cfg look correct? I've moved my Ubuntu partition from one drive to another and Ubuntu still boots despite grub.cfg pointing to the old partition which no longer exists.

Edit. In your grub.cfg, what is the text on the first line that follows the uuid number? You can access this file by clicking Text Editor on the BIU desktop.

 

Yes, made no diference.

Yes it was correct.
I do not remember (have restored the system). The problem with my setup was that grub after restoring the partition switched the numbering on the partitions and instead of booting my linux Os it tried to boot Winre tools; and since it couldn't, dell's firnware started the diagnistic utility. Anyway, I fixed by reconfiguring grub...
....and after some tests found that IFL/Booituefi are responsable for the mixed numbering of the partitions. If I modify and create the partitions, from windows their numbers get correctly updated by their position, but if I create them with IFL or Bootit they increment the number of the last created partition... and then on the first individual partition restoration they cause this mess.

 

Can you give an example as I don't quite follow what you did?

I had...

partition 0x01
free space
partition 0x03

I created a partition in the free space with BIU and Windows Disk Management. In both cases I got...

partition 0x02

 

Is this anything like you did? In BIU I created partitions on a GPT disk in a random order so I finished with these Partition IDs.

7, 4, 6, 3, 5, 1, 2

An entire drive image was taken with IFU. Partition 3 was restored from the image. The Partition IDs were unchanged. Partition 4 was restored from the image. The Partition IDs were unchanged.

Edit... Another test. Kubuntu was Partition ID 0x07. The partition was IFU copied to free space at the end of the drive. The copied Kubuntu was 0x10. The original Kubuntu partition was deleted. Restarted computer. No change in the Boot Item but new Kubuntu booted.

New Kubuntu partition was deleted. Kubuntu Partition ID 0x07 was restored to its original place. Kubuntu booted.

 

Something similar. The disk had 6 factory partitions. (1TB disk)
I srinked the 3rd partition (Windows 10) from 900GB to 100GB and created 2 small partitions right after the 3rd; 30GB (07) and 70GB (08 ) leaving 700GB of free space between the (08 ) and the (04)
Restored the (07) with IFU and it decided to reorder them. (the image was a "partial" one of the 07 partition only)

 

I know you are a competent user. It sounds like a bug between BIU and your UEFI firmware. Bite the bullet and email TeraByte Support.

 

This weekend I'll try to replicate it. If I succeed I will. At the moment I have no logs to send them.

edit (after 18 minutes): BootItUEFi for me is a beta program (and I'm being polite again). I just booted in my Windows partition only to find all my ntfs partitions mounted!
I check the settings and all of them had the flags MS hidden and MS no mount removed. This thing is off my systems for now. Maybe I'll give it another try in a few months.

 

I was involved in the BIU beta program. I found several issues, emailed Support and the issues were fixed in a few hours. Logs were not requested. Many of my issues (I think) were workarounds for my buggy UEFI BIOS. My motherboard died (B85 chipset) during the beta period so I installed a new, current motherboard (B360 chipset) and the issues ceased.

Asus eventually repaired the old MB. I recently put it in a spare computer case and installed BIU but there are still issues. The new MB works perfectly with BIU so the old MB will be retired. As I mentioned before, in my current setup BIU is now as reliable as BIBM.

Off topic but interesting. With the new MB, Win10 took 20 seconds to boot from the SSD. I though this was slow but probably OK. Gigabyte released a BIOS upgrade to "Improve Windows boot time". Win10 now boots in 11 seconds. This is the time from the BIU Boot Menu to the Win10 desktop. Not the time from pressing the power button.

 

This laptop is new, it's being around a few months(the 2018 model). So it's not related with old UEFI firmware (Actually, I'm impressed of how polished it's firmware is and of it's features)
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/inspiron-15-3567-laptop (i5-7200U with optical drive model)
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/inspiron-15-3567-laptop/drivers

20 seconds seems to much for an ssd... even dell 3567 with it's (extremely) slow seagate hdd boots in less than 30 seconds

 

Hello,

TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite version 3.23 has been released.
Webpage
Downloads
TeraByte Unlimited User Community Forums

Image for Windows 3.23
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Upgrade History - Image for Windows

Image for DOS version 3.23
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Upgrade History - Image for DOS

Image for Linux version 3.23
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Upgrade History - Image for Linux

OSD Tool Suite version 1.83
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Upgrade History - OSD Tool Suite

 

Hello,

BootNow UEFI Version 1.02 was released on 10/04/2018 (available from the BootIt UEFI: Downloads page).

Note: It appears that the TeraByte BootIt Collection (BIBM and BIU) have not been updated at this time...

 

Hello @Peter2150,

You are most welcome ...

 

Hello,

TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite version 3.24 has been released.
Webpage
Downloads
TeraByte Unlimited User Community Forums

Image for Windows 3.24
Downloads
Upgrade History - Image for Windows

Image for DOS version 3.24
Downloads
Upgrade History - Image for DOS

Image for Linux version 3.24
Downloads
Upgrade History - Image for Linux

 

Hello @Peter2150,

You are most welcome ...

Yeah, it was fast... The updates for this month are a bit strange anyways as they usually update their BootIt products at the same time to account for the updates to other TeraByte products like IFD and IFU. I wonder why they have not updated the BootIt products yet as I have never seen them not to do so in the many years that I have been using TeraByte products...