IFL without boot disk (Windows) - Destroys UEFI boot entry?

[Brian K]

Do I need to use:
(o) Leave Boot Drive Mounted as /tbu/boot

Yes, you do.
/tbu/scripts is not mounted so any changes you make in that folder will not be present when IFL is booted again.

I find this line handy because if you manually boot IFL, it does open at the IFL window.

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ext("SET TEXTLINE /tbu/boot/scripts/scriptslist.txt ^"0_IFL.tbs^"")

I'd be interested in seeing any improvements you make to this procedure.

Don't use this line...

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ext("del /tbu/boot/scripts/* -y -q")

... as it will delete everything in the folder.

[highend]

Thanks for the confirmation

I've recreated the IFL stick, copied the partition over, changed the script to the old (your) paths and now it cleans it up successfully.

It's ok for me that after booting IFL from disk manually that it doesn't automatically start IFL. Actually I prefer it that it states that there were no scripts to execute and after running menu I'm mostly using TeraByte Explorer from there...

I'm very happy with the current way now. Backup speed is really nice, 24 GiB in 15 seconds...

... as it will delete everything in the folder.

That's the reason why I'm using it. I want to get rid of all scripts and then I'm just recreating the scriptlists.txt file and setup only the script that I need (by copying it over)...

[Brian K]

That's the reason why I'm using it. I want to get rid of all scripts and then I'm just recreating the scriptlists.txt file and setup only the script that I need (by copying it over)...

Got you. We do it differently. I just use scriptslist.txt to choose one of my ten or so tbs scripts. I'm sure we both get the same final result.

Edit... Is that a 24 GiB .tbi file?

[highend]

No, 24 GiB used on the Windows 10 partition. Additionally I backup the MSR, EFI and IFL partititons...

[Brian K]

I just checked my main computer. The Win11 partition contains 31.6 GiB of data.
I backed up the 4 partitions (as you did) in IFL. /:comp12. Image size is 18.0 GiB. Time taken 17 seconds.

The same backup using IFW took 39 seconds. But allowing for the boot into IFL and the reboot into Windows, IFW would be faster overall.

It was NVMe to NVMe.

[highend]

It wasn't meant as a comparison with IFW but with IFU (which is unfortunately very slow) and the size of the IFL partition is way smaller than the installation size of IFW

[Brian K]

Point taken. The same backup with IFU took 133 seconds. That's 8 times the duration of my IFL backup.

[Brian K]

Correction...
In a previous post I said I was using /comp:12 but it was really /comp:14. Enhanced Speed - A.