Reviews of Image for Windows

1. 
   jcollake

   Reviewing 2.52 (Jan 4, 2010)

   @Undesired Username: LOL, your review of this software set of my Google Alert for 'Jeremy Collake'. DKDude finally accepted that you weren't me, at least I think ;o. Me commenting here may raise suspicions again though, but screw it - the truth is the truth, and I can't be worried about people's paranoia.
   
   @wodez: Sometimes that DOES happen. It tends to happen more on Download.com than here though. There you can see clearly the ads, for mentioning discount coupons and such. Its ridiculous. I don't know how much it happens here, but I think it happens less than people think. As a developer, I've gotten to the point where I'm scared to read my user reviews, because I take negative ones so personally. I imagine most other developers are like that. For larger companies with marketing machines, well they are capable of anything ;o.
   
   I can see how people get paranoid, and with good reason. But, in this case you are wrong. I can vouch for Undesired Username. He's been around here for a long time. He's definitely not in anyone's pocket. He would easily rate my software a 1 if he felt it deserved it. He's simply giving his opinion, and I've come to respect his opinion on software a lot. He's given lots of useful feedback for my software. He is one of those people who support new, good software when he sees it -- and that's the kind of people who foster innovation. If it weren't for people like him, I wouldn't have a business. Users like him saw I had a good product, and got excited about it -- just like he has done here. There is no conspiracy, don't be so cynical ;)
   
   I'm sorry, this isn't a review.. I will rate it a 5 since I haven't yet used the software, but it is something I've needed for a while and is a nice accidental find. Funny I found it through the mention of my name though, lol. I thought about writing such a utility, as its so simple, but so necessary.. and existing solutions tended to be over-priced and over-featured.
2. 
   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!
3. 
   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.
4. 
   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.
5. 
   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.

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}