Reviews of Image for Windows

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   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 2.51a (Oct 30, 2009)

   DkDude swears up and down that I am Jeremy Collake, because I post positive reviews for Process Lasso. I must be a miracle man, assuming many different developer identities and whipping out a slew of software titles!
2. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 2.50a (Oct 1, 2009)

   Huh? I'm sure you're not talking about my reviews. It doesn't take much browsing here to find that I have many, many comments and reviews on software. This is just one of them. Just because some people aren't nitwits doesn't make them marketers.
3. 
   wodez

   Reviewing 2.41 (Aug 11, 2009)

   "These "reviews" are actually ads"
   I have to agree. Something is just not right here. Many reviews looks more like ads than actual reviews.
4. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 2.41 (Aug 3, 2009)

   The difference between IFW and its competitors, when imaging encrypted data, is that IFW sees the disk at a lower level; it sees the actual, encrypted disk content. Encrypted data is incompressible by its very nature. And if an entire volume is compressed, it is impossible to tell where files begin and end (and even impossible to tell what kind of file system is in use), thus the need to backup the entire volume--i.e. to use "raw mode".
   
   The authors of TrueCrypt advise against backing up the way the other imaging utilities do. This is mentioned in the documentation.
   
   There is a way to backup encrypted data using IFW the same way you can with the other utilities. Currently, though, doing so is not officially supported by TeraByte. And if the encrypted volume in question is the one Windows is installed on, you do NOT want to back it up in anything other than raw mode.
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   wodez

   Reviewing 2.40b (Jul 18, 2009)

   To extend my review. My mistake for thinking that TBIView was only for viewing image files. In my opinion file restoration should be included in the main program. Secondly a heads up for anyone using partitions encrypted with Truecrypt or Diskcryptor (may also be affected by other encryption software). Image for window seems unable to compress these partitions and can only create raw images. Also the TBIView utility wont recognize these images as valid so you wont be able to restore specific files but need to restore the whole image. So for encypted drives Trueimage or Exact Image will do a better job. Otherwise this software seems reliable and does what it's supposed to.

Discuss Image for Windows

1. Aug 2, 2009 - 11:48 PM
   terabytelv

   TrueCrypt partitions can be backed up by ensuring the TrueCrypt driver is displayed above phylock.sys in the UpperFilters value located in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet \Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}