IFL Beats the competition; 2x the speed of IFW too.
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:10 pm
Good day.
Just thought I'd report here our experience @ work. We encrypt our drives with Symantec PGP Full Disk Encryption. We needed to image an encrypted drive and write that image to a new replacement drive. Tried Ghost: Replicated drive would not boot. Tried Acronis: Replicated drive would not boot. Downloaded trial IFL, imaged all sectors, restored, all done, drive boots fine. My colleagues were impressed and apparently discussed getting a license (no idea where we are with that).
Also, I have been using IFL/IFW myself for a while now; I am very impressed. IFL images my system partition in 5 minutes! IFW takes twice that long. And I was worried about what would happen to Hiberfil and Pagefile upon restoring, since they are currently at the beginning of the partition and since I select not to include their data in my images - Well, upon restoring, they are exactly where/as they were! It's a bit of a problem if you are looking to get them re-created at the start of a disk after moving all other files away from the beginning tracks (which you can do with MyDefrag), but there are ways to do that by disabling/enabling them. It is better I think that they remain where they are, as IFW currently does, otherwise some files will get created upon booting and fragment the start of the disk.
Anyway, congrats on an excellent tool TerraByte!
Best Regards,
Just thought I'd report here our experience @ work. We encrypt our drives with Symantec PGP Full Disk Encryption. We needed to image an encrypted drive and write that image to a new replacement drive. Tried Ghost: Replicated drive would not boot. Tried Acronis: Replicated drive would not boot. Downloaded trial IFL, imaged all sectors, restored, all done, drive boots fine. My colleagues were impressed and apparently discussed getting a license (no idea where we are with that).
Also, I have been using IFL/IFW myself for a while now; I am very impressed. IFL images my system partition in 5 minutes! IFW takes twice that long. And I was worried about what would happen to Hiberfil and Pagefile upon restoring, since they are currently at the beginning of the partition and since I select not to include their data in my images - Well, upon restoring, they are exactly where/as they were! It's a bit of a problem if you are looking to get them re-created at the start of a disk after moving all other files away from the beginning tracks (which you can do with MyDefrag), but there are ways to do that by disabling/enabling them. It is better I think that they remain where they are, as IFW currently does, otherwise some files will get created upon booting and fragment the start of the disk.
Anyway, congrats on an excellent tool TerraByte!
Best Regards,